James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote:
> So why would anyone invest millions to build such a monstrosity even if it > worked? (We'll ignore the fact that it violates violate known > interpretations of physical theory out of respect for the Enlightenment > principle of evidence over theory.) > You would invest millions for the reason you just stated: because it violates known interpretations of the conservation of energy. You can't ignore that. That alone makes the machine worth a hundred billion dollars. Or a hundred trillion, perhaps. However inefficient it may be, surely there must be some physical principle that makes it work which could be elucidated from the machine, and then built into a more practical machine. In other words, it resembles a Newcomen steam engine. I doubt that it actually works. - Jed
