Re: [Vo]:Great quote from Benjamin Franklin

2017-05-30 Thread Axil Axil
What Ben said about finding the truth in nature is valid, but finding what will work in Engineering is a different issue. A good engineer will imagine a billion ways in which an invention will fail so that invention is built to avoid all those failure modes. The disciples of Cassandra make the

[Vo]:Great quote from Benjamin Franklin

2017-05-30 Thread Jed Rothwell
A Certain Person with a Vivid Imagination often makes Bold Claims about cold fusion. These claims are not borne out by the literature, or by theory. They are, as far as I know, imaginary. He is the only one who believes them. Okay, there are many people like that in this field. Anyway, in

Re: [Vo]:Measuring Spin

2017-05-30 Thread Nigel Dyer
Bob I followed up the lead to Phillip Hatt's ideas. I find these various grand unified ideas that individuals have put together fascinating. I encountered one myself many years ago which I posted up on my website and I think mentioned on vortex-l some years ago