Here’s a toy that is sold to people who don’t have a 6th-7th grade education in science and don’t realize that such a device does not conform to the laws of physics. The (manipulated) video shows the ball continuously falling …
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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 …
Those Darn Laws of Physics Again
As I’ve lamented over the years, very few of the ideas that come through my inbox are workable. Most contemplate accomplishing a task, say, generating electricity, in a way that clearly couldn’t be cost-effective. Approximately once a month, however, I …
Losing Patience with Concepts That Violate the Laws of Physics
I often write here that I’m never nasty or condescending to anyone who submits a business plan, regardless of how asinine their ideas. I have an admission to make: while that was true early, on, it’s no longer the case. …
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Energy Business Ideas that Violate the Laws of Physics
It’s the birthday of Isaac Newton, whose book “Principia” overturned nearly everything humankind had believed about the universe up to that point (1686). I bring this up to note that perhaps we should not be so smug about “the laws …
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