Hope it isn't something like this. They seem like businessmen not savvy tech types from vids on goog.
wbeatyAug 28th 2006 edited
It's well known that you can weaken a neodymium supermagnet by pushing it against the alike pole of a second magnet. The energy stored in the two magnets seems to vanish into nowhere.
Now just suppose that a configuration of supermagnets exists where not only do the magnets grow weaker, but also they can output a bit of mechanical energy. And suppose that you can position them around a rotor so that the rotor is pushed along. If true, then you could build a "perpetual motion machine" which seemingly violates the first law of thermo. But in fact, the magnets would slowly be growing weaker as the thing runs, and eventually it would stop.
The above is all speculation. But if an inventor stumbled onto such a discovery, they could easily fool themselves into thinking that they'd successfuly built a "permanent magnet motor," and found a new energy source unknown to contemporary science. Then they'd just have to be incurious about the strength of their magnets, or perhaps just accidentally forget to stick a gaussmeter on the magnet faces. No hoaxes, no scams. Just "pathological science," where an inventor would rather talk himself into believing that his discovery is important.
Science is the opposite: realizing our own psychological flaws, then trying to compensate. Ideally scientists always try to puncture their own grand dreams by trying like hell to ferret out any flaws in their own work. And if they don't find any, that just means that it's time to ask for withering criticism from colleagues.
See:
http://amasci.com/freenrg/fnrg.html
wbeatyAug 28th 2006 edited
It's well known that you can weaken a neodymium supermagnet by pushing it against the alike pole of a second magnet. The energy stored in the two magnets seems to vanish into nowhere.
Now just suppose that a configuration of supermagnets exists where not only do the magnets grow weaker, but also they can output a bit of mechanical energy. And suppose that you can position them around a rotor so that the rotor is pushed along. If true, then you could build a "perpetual motion machine" which seemingly violates the first law of thermo. But in fact, the magnets would slowly be growing weaker as the thing runs, and eventually it would stop.
The above is all speculation. But if an inventor stumbled onto such a discovery, they could easily fool themselves into thinking that they'd successfuly built a "permanent magnet motor," and found a new energy source unknown to contemporary science. Then they'd just have to be incurious about the strength of their magnets, or perhaps just accidentally forget to stick a gaussmeter on the magnet faces. No hoaxes, no scams. Just "pathological science," where an inventor would rather talk himself into believing that his discovery is important.
Science is the opposite: realizing our own psychological flaws, then trying to compensate. Ideally scientists always try to puncture their own grand dreams by trying like hell to ferret out any flaws in their own work. And if they don't find any, that just means that it's time to ask for withering criticism from colleagues.
See:
http://amasci.com/freenrg/fnrg.html
