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[sarkeizen]

you come across as being arrogant and condescending.

Must...resist...comparison...to...darkly...colored...housewares

and you should perhaps ask yourself why I have spent years and piles on money if I did not have some extreme reason for my confidence. It beggars belief that your advice would be news to me,

It is apparently news to you that rich people, educated people and even rich/educated people all waste time and money on things that are moronic.  Are you sure you can't think of a single example of that? Or do you claim that every endeavor was "on to something".

Rossi?  Steorn?  Firepower International?

or that you would imagine I would suddenly shout out that I have wasted the time of dozens of people, years of research when I should have just asked you.

Well one could only hope but I agree it's not likely for you to change your mind.  It's far more likely that you will storm off in a huff based on some imagined slight.

Do I need to put a QED here?

I think I do.

QED.

I simply have nothing more to discuss with you, all I can show you is my success, and no doubt until 20th August you will continue to tell people that I am wrong

I, for one will be telling people that well after August 20th.

[sarkeizen]

you should perhaps ask yourself why I have spent years and piles on money if I did not have some extreme reason for my confidence.

Idea: Can someone give Miles Mathis a great deal of money to research Pi=4?  Thus convincing Philip that there is some extreme reason for his confidence?

[MarkE]

Mathis goes out of his way to promote what he knows is silly BS.  Mr. Hardcastle is on a quest.

[sarkeizen]

I don't know if Mathis is a con man or simply deluded.  A conman is more likely considering how ridiculous the claim.  Grading on the same scale I'm not sure about Philip.  He might be simply deluded but there are a few things which suggest the opposite to me.  For example he might really have the sensitivities of someone from 1837 London.  I simply find it hard to believe.  You could never operate in the real world that way.  Can someone, who isn't a dictator of a small country be more than five decades old, worked in all sorts of places and still be L'Enfant Terrible?  Seems less likely than the alternative.  It's just a way to avoid awkward questions.

Again Philip claims to be involved in all sorts of business activities but neither plans for the proper lead time or does any of the normal activities associated with said activities.  His website talked about a "launch" but no effort was put into advertisement (other than his website).  He has claimed to be producing a product but clearly has no clue about the amount of time it takes to tool up for a production run.  You might do a custom or hand-create products but the point of that would be if your product doesn't work.  Which would mean he's lying (to us, to himself?) about his confidence.

In these things, Philip looks like someone trolling the OU community. 

Such classifications aren't mutually exclusive either.  I suspect that lots of people perform "little cons" backed by considerable delusion because "I just know it will work this time".

[MarkE]

What you say could be correct.  It is not my interpretation of Mr. Hardcastle.  I don't think it is so hard to see where he gets his motivation.  The Second Law is a very frustrating thing.  As Dr. Sheehan notes, it's one of the few principles we have that has not seen any effective modification in over 100 years. So one might very well question why there is no exception out there someplace.  The trouble is  that as frustrating and unsatisfying as the Second Law may be:  It's here to stay until someone discovers solid evidence against it.