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| brian whatcott... |
 Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 6:18 pm |
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Paul O wrote:
[quote][about] jdawe (AT) ncable.com.au
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I am curious as to why you decided to strike out on your own and develop
an original Theory of the Universe instead of starting with the basics -
Newton, Faraday, Kelvin, Maxwell, Lorentz, Plank, Einstein, Fermi,
Feynman, Bethe, Chandrasekhar, etc. - and build on their work?
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I have come across a few people in this same class. One person, very
very sincere, who built a track for a toy car with magnets imbedded in
it, that visibly would run up hill (under the influence of magnets
imbedded each side of the track) run down the other side and on around
and make it back to the foot of the original upslope. (Almost! At the
foot of the slope, there was a boundary of magnetic repulsion that the
car had to be pushed through, before it would start running up hill)
He was certain that a little more effort, and he would have a toy car
that would circle the track indefinitely.
You could SEE it climbing up hill with no external power expended, after
all! I found this kind of enthusiast forgivable: you could see how
he got to his position...
Then there are the folks who have been abducted by aliens - the
folks who have seen a flying saucer, - the folks who hear voices....
But I suspect that Mr Dawe feels deep down that he has insights that not
many people get - he feels special so he enjoys being treated as special.
And I expect he has not been burdened by much college education in this
area. Once you accept some Conservation rules: energy/matter, charge,
momentum, it takes all the fun out of building on fanciful concepts.
They are knocked out in the first or second semester.
Brian W |
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