I'm curious as to how fellow Vorts would answer this question.
What are the chances that there is at least one undiscovered form of
energy yet to be discovered?
0=No F*in Way
1=slight chance
2=reasonable chance
3=very good chance
4=I'm certain there are undiscovered forms of energy
I had the opportunity to work with some competent scientists during grad
school at the Atmospheric Sciences Center of the Desert Research Institute.
it was a wonderful experience, and I would occasionally drop in and chat
with a few of the chemists and physicists. Often our conversations drifted
to 'fringe' topics like LENR; most were quite open to the possibility,
actually.
One of the research chemists, Bill Finnegan, had a major gripe with the way
they teach science. he asked me to grab a book off his shelf (it was a
college text on Thermodynamics), asked me to open it to the Preface, and
read it out loud (it was only two paragraphs). I don't remember the section
verbatim, but the whole point he wanted me to learn was that there is a
qualifying phrase which all the Laws of Thermodynamics BEGIN with.
especially, the first and second (CoE and increasing Entropy). that phrase
is,
"IN A CLOSED SYSTEM." <you know the rest>
Dr. Finnegan's gripe was that all too often that simple, but all important,
phrase was not emphasized enough to make it stick in students' minds. it
makes a big difference in their mentality once they get into actual
research. And I will continue to remind this Collective of that all
important fact. we know about and can easily measure various kinds of
energy, but that does not mean that we are aware of and can measure ALL
forms of energy. Hence, when someone adamantly relies on CoE, saying that
such and such is impossible since it would violate CoE, they are not a
scientist in my mind. The good scientists are always very careful with the
wording they use, and 'always' and 'never' and 'impossible' are seldom if
ever used by them; instead, they use phrases like 'very unlikely', or
'highly improbable'. Those are the minds that were taught proper
thermodynamics. improperly taught science slowly results in scientific
dogma.
-Mark
