Posted on 07/30/2002 8:22:27 AM PDT by Fitzcarraldo
Nuclear chain reactions surely must have made that list, but Enrico Fermi was already a world-famous physicist at the time he did it. Perhaps that loses on a technicality, however, as Fermi was reknowned as a theorist before he changed the world with his experiment.
The theory of superconductivity may not have made that list, although it arguably should have; John Bardeen had already received the Nobel Prize for the invention of the transistor (a strong contender for #1 on any list) when he, Cooper and Schrieffer developed it, earning him another Noble Prize.
D'oh! A typo. I meant to write "Noble Gas", of course. Yep. Pretty much. <g>
The guy who left ITT because they nixed his sustained fusion reaction work?
I, with one undergrad course in Modern Physics, think these Free Energy/Anti-gravity knobs might be onto something. They just discredit themselves with bad vocabulary. The Lifters are producing a thrust, and I believe they have shown to produce a thrust in a vacuum chamber (Purdue?). But to claim Anti-gravity is premeture or worse, sensationalism. Propellentless propulsion is a holy grail in it's own right, it doesn't need the hype.
The free-energy guys are claiming to extract energy from some sort of background radiation flux, it's no more free than solar or hydro-electric. Yet again, they sell it as a something for nothing scheme.
God bless FR!
Yes.
Propellentless propulsion is a holy grail in it's own right, it doesn't need the hype.
Claiming to break Newton's third law constitutes hype, IMHO.
The free-energy guys are claiming to extract energy from some sort of background radiation flux,
Claiming in effect to break the laws of thermodynamics constitutes hype, too. You can have all the energy in the universe, but if you can't get it to flow from a hot reservoir to a cold one, you can't use it to do work. Background energies are almost by definition "cold".
Why, sure you could! Don't stand on ceremony.
:-)
Related to zero-point energy. Energy is useless, work is what counts. Zero-point energy and free-energy can't do work. There is no free lunch.
Wow, a fallacy, a grammatical error and a spelling error all in the same sentence!
Isn't that what Little Tommy Daschle stands on to see over the podium?
It ain't conspiracy bud, just human nature, and 'nothing personal, it's just business.'
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