Well, how about the IgNobel, then ;-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners
I suspect that more than a few inventors and assorted Vorticians would rather win the IgNobel - but at the same time change the world for the better, than to win the Nobel with Ho-Hum work, later discredited...
Jones Horace Heffner wrote:
The first person to demonstrate robust, on-demand overunity, especially in so simple a device will- WITHOUT ANY QUESTION- be an immediate candidate for the Nobel prize, and become as wealthy as they want to be. It is that simple.
I doubt anyone but a scientist with excellent credentials would get a nobel for that, at least in physics or chemistry. Who, knows, something critically meaningful to the energy problem could get a peace prize though, but there is a long ways between demonstrating over-unity and actually solving the energy-global-warming crisis. I guess it depends on just how robust "robust" is and how motivated the world is to do what is necessary.
BTW - something about the subject line for this thread is 'fitting' ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analyze_This ... especially in the context of the 2006 IgNobel for Medicine...
