Testing the TK Tar Baby

[MileHigh]

Mark:

I watched your recent SmartScarecrow appearance where you gave a quick synopsis of what happened in SA.  It was the "worst case" scenario coming true.  Unbelievable what goes on sometimes.  Did you ever read that report about that visit to Lutec by some scientists?  Similar story.

I can't believe that the proponents of these schemes are that dumb.  It just doesn't fit.  So my instincts tell me they are cons.  You know in the Reagan era the Republicans would state that any publicity, even bad publicity, was good.  Hence the parade of improbable characters and their associated gizmos on Sterling's web site.

By the way, I asked "Mr. Wayne" what the power output from his device was on another thread.  I also asked him what form it was in and how he measured it.  He couldn't answer anything and offered up the usual patronizing and philosophical/religious musings and tried to demonize me.  I can't wait to hear what transpires when you do your vetting of his alleged free energy buoyancy machine.

Just remember, I am going to guess a few large cylinders of compressed air might possibly power that thing for days on end.  May I suggest that you get a hold of a mechanic's (or doctor's) stethoscope and listen in on that thing to try to hear for an energy source.  The "Travis Effect" is bogus - playing with buoyancy is like playing with a set of levers.

Don't hold your breath wrt RA and the NERDs.  Big Ben still chimes the hour and all is right with the world.

MileHigh

[TinselKoala]

Hi TK
I am enjoying your series on Ohms Law for dummies.
One thing that has been puzzling me for months. If you and the RA were to mate and produce off spring what sort of child would you have? Would the child be forever torn between the the separate universes you work from?
Pure speculation I know......but still I wonder.
I was in SA earlier this year on another wild goose chase, I forgot to see if RA would meet up. I had a competent physicist with me with two suit cases full of test equipment. Still kicking myself about that.


Kind Regards
Mark Dansie

Hi Mark, and thanks for your interest.
I'm afraid I can't entertain even in fantasy the kind of miscegenation you are thinking of, the very idea gives me the willies. But... did you ever see the movie "Rosemary's Baby" (1968, dir Roman Polanski) ? 

I wouldn't exactly characterise this set of _little_ essays as Ohm's Law for Dummies. Some very bright people don't have a firm grasp of the basics, even though they might be able to use the relationships in practice. And, hopefully, Ohm's Law has a lesson within it about relativity (not the General Einsteinian gravitational kind but the plain old "special" kind that involves choice of measuring points and direction of view.) But the real point of the series is to give a condensed view of just what is meant by a Model, how effective a model QED actually IS, and how difficult it would be to try to replace or augment it with something completely different. Especially if that different thing does not have hundreds of years of experimental work and the fantastic accuracy of QED in its correspondence with all aspects of the behaviour of circuits, devices and systems.

Yes, I too am sorry that you didn't have the opportunity to see RA and her device in person during your visit. I'm sure the report would have made interesting reading.

Thanks again for your comment and interest.... stay tuned for a few further essays.

[TinselKoala]

A brief aside: Charge distribution in conductors.

The Voltage Game, only this time the "room" is a good conductor, there are no desks, just the four walls, floor and ceiling, no exit and just our one entrance. Let's put four "electrons" carrying their negative, repulsive, unit charges into the room, close the door, and let them mill around freely.

Where are they going to wind up?




OK, enough, good night all.

[onthecuttingedge2005]

this is not to you TK but to the rest of the room.

take a razor blade and slice an electron in half to get 2.

won't happen.

then slice it again.

won't happen.

amplification of electrons is just recycling already used electrons. it doesn't create new ones out of thin air.

no 'free' energy.

now if you were playing with the resonance frequency of the universe, I would gladly shut up and listen extremely.

Hint hint hint.

If the universe was 0 hertz wouldn't it be dead? at 1 hertz wouldn't there be a heart beat?

very tough to play with indeed.

but who said a star ship would be small?

Jerry

[PhiChaser]

A brief aside: Charge distribution in conductors.

The Voltage Game, only this time the "room" is a good conductor, there are no desks, just the four walls, floor and ceiling, no exit and just our one entrance. Let's put four "electrons" carrying their negative, repulsive, unit charges into the room, close the door, and let them mill around freely.

Where are they going to wind up?

OK, enough, good night all.

They won't touch each other and there is no 'open' door so they won't go anywhere because there is no pressure to 'push' them? Equally spaced apart and moving very little is my final answer...