I dont think one has to read the technical details to know that something that violates the basic laws of conservation is unlikely to be anything but a con.
Initally I thought it meant vacuum literally, a big long tube that you poke up into outer space and the vacuum sucks up the air turning a small impeller to drive the generator. That would work.
A balloon on a very long string that you sent up into the slipstream would be a good idea too, the string turns a winch to power the dynamo. When you come to the end of the string, a signal releases the ballon and you send up another, which also rewinds your first bit of string. And the signal could deflate the balloon so you could reuse that too.
Of course if NASA had had the sense to tie a piece of string to the moon when they were up there that would have been even better; it could have towed a big train round and round the earth with no electricity cost at all.
PS Lots of articles quoted, not same as participants. They seem to be real enough. Whether the right conclusions are drawn is another matter.
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Originally posted by sasguruIt's always amusing when people reveal their ignorance
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Originally posted by wendigo100
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Originally posted by wendigo100
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Originally posted by sasguruAccording to all the Maths (and I think some empirical evidence) it is possible to go back in time.
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Originally posted by bogeymanUnderstands what, exactly? Please elucidate.
Does he understand that making smug-sounding comments of the "Ah ha! I know better than you Pygmies" sort, without bothering to explain his own 'theory' to the rest of us benighted plebs makes him look like an utter tosser?
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Originally posted by wendigo100That's what I meant, yes. We used to model the universe with gods and the supernatural in order to make sense of it, and they were very successful in their day too.
Are strings the new goat entrails?
PS Your earlier post is also wrong. According to all the Maths (and I think some empirical evidence) it is possible to go back in time, which is just another dimension in the space-time continuum.
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Originally posted by Fungus"Don't we just pretend it is a dimension for practical reasons"
Depends what you mean by pretend. We make lots of assumptions in order to derive theories which agree - or not - with experiment. General relativity and other theories model time as a dimension and they are very successful. If string theory can be used to make predictions, or to derive the values of the cosmological constants, then it's not really pretending.
Are strings the new goat entrails?
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I believe there are 42 + 7i dimensions
This is where the answer to life the universe and everything comes from and also why most peoples lucky number is seven.
HTH
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Originally posted by wendigo100As I understand it, space is the first, second and third dimensions, by definition. What is this fifth dimension?
Time is always the same for everything and everyone. Nothing can travel backwards in it. Don't we just pretend it is a dimension for practical reasons like scheduling, applied maths and stuff?
http://www.matter-antimatter.com/kal...ein_theory.htm
Modern string or brane theory further increases the number of spatial dimensions.
"Don't we just pretend it is a dimension for practical reasons"
Depends what you mean by pretend. We make lots of assumptions in order to derive theories which agree - or not - with experiment. General relativity and other theories model time as a dimension and they are very successful. If string theory can be used to make predictions, or to derive the values of the cosmological constants, then it's not really pretending.
I suppose we could collectively put our fingers in our ears and shout "Can't hear you" whenever a theoretical physicist spouts off. (If you work in theoretical physcis it feels like that anyway.)
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Originally posted by The MasterJust as time is the fourth dimension, space is the fifth, for space is completely boundless and knows no time. There, I hope that's clear.
Time is always the same for everything and everyone. Nothing can travel backwards in it. Don't we just pretend it is a dimension for practical reasons like scheduling, applied maths and stuff?
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Originally posted by cswdWahey someone who understands!!!
Does he understand that making smug-sounding comments of the "Ah ha! I know better than you Pygmies" sort, without bothering to explain his own 'theory' to the rest of us benighted plebs makes him look like an utter tosser?
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Shall we go through the one again where you're walking towards a train at 5 kph and the train hits you at 200 kph ...
Giving time a dimension is just a trick to make a model, it isn't reality.
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Originally posted by zeitghostWell the "Good" Doctor and the Glorious Leader seem to manage ok...
And the War Criminal James Tiberius Kirk has been leaping back & forth like a fiddler's elbow too, not to mention Quark, Janeway and Sisko.
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Originally posted by wendigo100What is a dimension, anyway? How can anyone be "in the fifth dimension"?
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