J.C.MacSwell

Or just look at them. If one of the blocks is a ball you have found the odd ball.

Should we just call an electron a wave also, and leave it at that? I know there is a difference, to a degree, but reduced far enough there is no particle aspect left (I think?), yet both have some particle like properties that emerge from the "wave".

I didn't even see it coming!

If you are in a space station being spun to make artificial gravity and run real fast you would decrease in "weight" going one way, in which case at some point you could jump just right and hover above "ground" unable to reach anything, or increase in weight if you ran in the opposite direction.

Can a second set of wheels be triggered to come into play on picking up the object that are geared to be in reverse? They can already be spinning in reverse but not touching the ground and the initial wheel set can continue spinning forward but be lifted off the ground.

I picture this as being borrowed from space itself which is a quagmire of energy fluctuation. Anyone see pitfalls in this idea?

Throw in any friction calculation and the resulting distance is shorter for the given time.

And on the seventh day you deserved a good rest!

Wouldn't they all be stretched the same amount but, due to the extra distance of anything more than X lightyears away (X being the time since creation), the light from those sources simply would not have arrived yet?

Isn't the alpha centauri, our nearest neighbour, a 2 or 3 star system. If we aren't part of that how could we be a binary with something else.?

Maybe Spaghetti Theory will take over String Theory (Macaroni metrics, Lasagna branes etc. etc.)

I'm pretty sure if you include the uncertainty of the demon himself he cannot get an edge over random statistical variances. (someone summed up the laws of thermodynamics as "You can't win, you can't break even, but you must play the game")

Other than the CP conservation violation Swanton mentioned. Forgot where I ready this but if you are off galavanting around the universe and meet your "twin", and he offers to shake your hand, if he offers the left hand don't shake it!

I think we conclude otherwise, but wonder how it came about. AFAIK "every particle has an anti-particle" refers to the type of particle not the quantities, although any new production of one must be balanced by the other. Isn't there also a small "flaw" in the conservation law that in theory biases matter over anti-matter?

IIRC it is based on the uncertainty principle. On the scale the demon needs to operate he can't have the information he requires.

At the size of the Demon it's not pressure, just momentary impacts. Also will not work according to Quantum physics. The thought experiment demonstrates the statistical nature of the second law.

Yes, and entropy increases but not by as much as if you had used a conventional electric heater at "100%" efficiency.

Even if plain heaters are 100% efficient, which they basically are, heat pumps can deliver many times more energy than they use (pay for). Entropy increases as the high grade electrical energy is used to concentrate the much lower grade heat energy outdoors to not much higher grade room temperature. It is much more efficient (and less heating required anyway) the warmer the outside (or geothermal, lake water etc.) temperature. Note that heat pumps can claim to be 300% and greater efficient, which is true, but that is not thermodynamic efficciency, just that it delivers more heat than the energy that it uses directly.

It should still collapse to a point.

I'm a dinghy and iceboat racer. My first thought was that you had no energy potential to harness unless you were somehow in contact with the ground or another fluid, air or wind, at a different velocity. I just didn't realize this is what you were suggesting. You could actually go "upwind" of both "winds" using this metod, at least in theory. Interesting idea. It would be an awkward contraption though.

I hope he appreciates your efforts!

Understood, except I don't think that is what he is claiming. Also 99.99% of the energy leaves with the photons, not going into propulsion. Extremely inefficient. I think he is claiming that the shape of the chamber influences the net rebound/impulse of the continuously resonating photons. An analogy would be putting a boat in the water and it moves forward because of it's shape.

Any attempt by the plane to harness the energy of the wind will cause more drag than thrust unless it is a tailwind (in which case lift will be somewhat problematic)

I have that one but haven't read it. Are any of the roads extra dimensional or is that too stringy?