Gravity Engine?
I get submissions from readers that “challenge” the laws of physics at the rate of four or five per year. Over time, I’ve become kinder to such people in my replies; I used to be fairly brutal, but there’s no reason for that.
A gentleman from Germany writes: Attached are some documents that explain how this gravity-powered engine works, and provides a scientifically fully proven theory that allows such devices to be built. Included is a PDF of book (that I wrote that provides the scientific proof. An animation (attached) makes it easier to understand the book. The realization of this concept (the first fully functional prototype) needs capital that I seek. Can you organize financing?
I respond:
Sorry, all I can do is wish you good luck. This violates the laws of physics, specifically the first and second laws of thermodynamics, and I can’t present it to an educated person without completely destroying my credibility.
Having said that, I sincerely hope you are the first person out of the many millions, working over thousands of years, to disprove these laws. Please send me a video of a working model if you are successful in building one.
Craig,
When I was a student, as a prank, I persuaded some of the more credulous and ‘hippie’ students (this was was 1971), I had been involved in a secret US/Australian army project to develop mind power techniques by harnessing the power of love to make flowers grow and blossom with new colors and varieties.
My theory was a little more intricate and detailed, but basically just elegant gibberish. I was amazed to discover several otherwise really bright philosophy and humanities students took my b/s seriously and I found myself unable to get out of helping to organize a “love fest” at a beautiful mountain hobby farm and vacation retreat belonging to friends of my mother.
Over 30 male, and maybe 70 female, carefully selected attendees assembled for a late summer week on the mountain property. It all got a bit out of hand, although basically peaceful and no really bad incidents, (although, some propagating was an unfortunate unintended consequence 🙂 .
One fellow student actually went on to write a PHD thesis on the effects of love on flowering plants, graduating with a scholarship to some Californian University.
I wrote a paper on the event with similar success for my Behavioral Science degree. (Strange, but happy times, certainly in the field of propagating).
Events took a surreal turn when my mother’s friends who owned the property, shortly after established what has become a renowned and quite famous garden on the property as a memorial to their only son who was killed in the Vietnam War. The owners, upon their demise, willed the garden in trust to the State of NSW for public benefit.
Even more “Twilight zone” phenomenon occurred when no less than five new varieties of previously unknown flowering plants have been discovered growing in the garden and surrounding forest over the years.
In the words of the Bard; “There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy”.