The Road to Perpetual Motion

[laci]

G'day ChileanOne,

Yes, I believe what I am working on has repercussions right across the spectrum. When I have concluded my current set of experiments I will turn my attention to magnetism and see if and how it might apply there. Thanks for your interest.

Hans von Lieven

And I will watch this development holding my breath - when Hans turns to magnetism, I expect some spectacular advances - results of topmost importance. Let us watch that space.

laci

[hansvonlieven]

@ Ash,

Thanks for a terrific find. An excellent book and very apropos to this thread.

Hans von Lieven

[ashtweth_nihilisti]

G'day Hans/Guys, hopefully you guys will be re writing it with this device soon
Am up the behind with sprak /hydroxy experiments and being distracted by this thread

[TinselKoala]

(Thanks, www.xkcd.com)

[BEP]

 

Nice cartoon!

Unfortunately the humor is lost to me because most of these counter arguments are based upon a theory.

Even though that theory is normally a very good approximation it is failing to explain why Voyager is proceeding 5,000 km less than calculated - each year. Almost every slingshot procedure fails to hit expected acceleration (not off by much - but enough to make a difference on long voyages in space).

That theory is called 'gravitation'. Does anyone here know the difference between gravitation and acceleration? For that matter, is anyone here still looking for planet Vulcan?