liberte@uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU (11/05/85)
Here is something new regarding the Newman discussion. In "Nature", Vol 317, Sept 26 and Oct 2, 1985 issues, there is a two page advertizement for a book, "The Thorny Way of Truth, Part II" by Stefan Marinov. The ad is mostly text. Some excerpts: "In the documentary part of my book, I give information on the N-machines of Bruce de Palma (California), Kieninger (Texas) and so on, as well as on Newman's (Louisiana) "impossible motor" (as labelled by Science, 223, 571; 1984). The N-machines represent Faraday disks cemented to their magnets. Newman keeps his machine secret, but from the information published in the press and from the letters of a friend of mine who visited him, I come to the conclusion that his apparatus may be a Faraday disk. However, none of these gentlemen has coupled a Faraday disk with a Barlow disk, and for this reason none of them could observe creation of energy out of nothing as I have done with my first apparatus shown in the photograph above." He starts the ad: "With the aim of making clear the essence of the *perpetuum mobile* I have invented, I now describe it (fig. 1). ... [two paragraphs]" "I cannot give an unappealable explanation for this *strange* phenomenon and I sustain it *exclusively* on the experimental evidence, paying also a 100% credit to the reports of the constructors of the N-machines." He gives some theoretical basis for related concepts: "Einstein and his epigones think that if a piece of wire and a magnet *move together*, then induction phenomena cannot appear. Now I shall show that this is not true. In such a case we have for the magnetic potential A in the wire dA/dt = ... [long paragraph] A childishly simple explanation but THE WHOLE WORLD IS BLIND." Well, it wasnt childish to me. I would hope someone with a stronger physics background would look up the ad and review it. Dan LaLiberte liberte@uiucdcs.Uiuc.ARPA ihnp4!uiucdcs!liberte
matt@oddjob.UUCP (Matt Crawford) (11/06/85)
In article <13300005@uiucdcsb> liberte@uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU writes: > >In "Nature", Vol 317, Sept 26 and Oct 2, 1985 issues, there is >a two page advertizement for a book, "The Thorny Way of Truth, >Part II" by Stefan Marinov. The ad is mostly text. I looked this up and read it. The equations you refer to a formally correct but don't mean anything. He ends up deriving something analogous to x+y=0 implying no free energy, but then he says that x need not always equal -y. > Some excerpts: >"I cannot give an unappealable explanation for this *strange* >phenomenon and I sustain it *exclusively* on the experimental >evidence, ..." If you read as far as the middle of the fourth column of text you see that he has no experimental evidence. Describing another perpetual motion machine of his he states: "As in my 'coupled N-machine' [the first machine in the ad], here again the generated tension at a certain rate of rotation was lower than the driving tension which has to maintain this rate ... . To close this 'circle' I need only some $5000 to ameliorate the parameters of the machine." This same person, Stefan Marinov, twice threatened to immolate himself in front of different British embassies because Nature refused to print some papers of his purporting to disprove general relativity and demonstrate perpetual motion. _____________________________________________________ Matt University crawford@anl-mcs.arpa Crawford of Chicago ihnp4!oddjob!matt