Originally posted by GregoryThe world being round was impossible at one time too. firefirefireph
The worst that could happen is that we blow billions of dollars worth of funds trying to break the laws of physics and build a magic energy machine.The best that can happen is ... well, since Hutchison is a ludicrous fraud and free energy is impossible, I'm having trouble coming up with a "best case scenario" for this one.
People knew the world was round thousands of years before Christ. But of course, that's the standard response to people who believe stupid things; well, that and Galileo. "Sure, my theory is completely ludacrous and goes against thousands of years of experimentation, but ... uh Galileo They thought he was wrong too. And, uh ... Galileio. Please give me research money!"
The best that can happen is ... well, since Hutchison is a ludicrous fraud and free energy is impossible, I'm having trouble coming up with a "best case scenario" for this one.
where did you get your doctorite of physics again? I'm going to have to side with the military and professors of MIT on this one........something tells me their credentials are a tad better than yours. If it's a hoax or fraud......he is truely a genius.
(I don't mean to sound strident, but I think a lot of people don't quite understand how rare it is for a truly important scientific concept, one that has been around for well over a century, to be completely overthrown. It happens occassionally, but this...)
if it is simply tapping into zero-point energy........it is not creating energy so I fail to see how any "scientific concept that's been around for over a century" to be overthrown. It's simply a new method of harnassing naturally occurring energy.
I believe you had your science and religion mixes up in this thread. Science........hypothesis > test > data > results > repeat. a claim was made and those making it are willing to test it. your response borders more on religion.........dismissing a claim without any scientific testing 'cause "I jus don't like the derned idea"
Originally posted by Evil Dead
[B]where did you get your doctorite of physics again? I'm going to have to side with the military and professors of MIT on this one........something tells me their credentials are a tad better than yours. If it's a hoax or fraud......he is truely a genius.
Because the US military would never blow money on something stupid. *snort* Perish the thought.
And since you're so confident in your MIT profs' credentials, no doubt you can give me the names of the proffessors who've backed his claim. Not that it would really matter if you could; nobody cares about your arguments from authority. But MIT ... I've heard that name before, in an odd context ... Oh yes, now I remember; one of their professors claimed that the higher ups at MIT was surpressing the truth about cold fussion, and quit in a huff. Dear dear.
(Hundreds of scientists have signed up to test the device. We will, of course, wait to hear what the have to say, but if someone claims he's learned how to fly by flapping his arms really hard, I don't feel that I need to wait for him to actually jump off a roof before I form an opinion on the subject. Yes yes, terribly close-minded I know. Confusing science and religion, blah blah blah)
Zero point energy, incidently, is the lowest amount of energy you can have in a system. People keep talking about it like it's some free energy solution to the First Law of Thermodynamics, but it's generally understood that, since it's physically impossible to have less then zero-point energy, you can't extract it from the system, any more then you can cool a system to below absolute zero.