On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Mark Gibbs <mgi...@gibbs.com> wrote: > > >> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Kevin O'Malley <kevmol...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> They did not need to put first-principles theories of flight in their >>> patent. Gibbs seems to think this has been a requirement all along. >>> >> >> O'Malley is making unfounded assumptions. Gibbs never wrote or implied >> any such thing. >> > > Well, not to quibble or split hairs, but you said the Wrights had a > "theory of lift." They had no theory. They did not know what caused lift. > They did not try to learn that. > Gibbs didn't say anything about the Wright Brothers ... that was Ed Storms: From: Edmund Storms <stor...@ix.netcom.com> Date: Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 11:04 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Re: CMNS: explaining LENR - II To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Cc: Edmund Storms <stor...@ix.netcom.com> (snip, snip, snip) The Wright Brothers had a theory - it was called the theory of lift. They were the first to understand this process, which allowed them to have the success that was missing when flight was attempted without this understanding. [mg]
