CPL.Luke

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steorn yep they're a scam, a former dot com thats changed, their purpose as a company more times than should be legal, also because they haven't filed accounts since 2004 the Irish government could begin hearings in october to take posetion of the company. This is all just a scam to allow the board of directors to make some money before the company goes down in flames. I knew I didn't trust their CEO

however the company in question is trying to demonstrate that fact, they are hiring real engineers and real physicists to analyze the device and then publish their findings. they are not offering a cash prize to disprove that they're over unity or screaming on internet forums that nobody takes them seriously. The fact that they are trying to do this properly makes me think that they may (and I mean may) have found somoething, while it may not be getting free energy it could be taking in energy from a previously unknown source. EDIT: ah crap I just figured out what they're doing, they are a public company so when they announced this challenge their stock price probably went up, they'll drag it out for a few months while they all sell their stock. Then when they've sold most of it and made a shitload of money they'll release the results go bankrupt and then retire with a crapload of money. Its just like what the dot coms did in the 90's

also disclosing the kind of potential energyyour going to be using shouldn't hurt you to much, its practically impossible to patent the use of a specific kind of energy, you can however patent a method of extracting it. I would be interested in hearing what your idea is, and I know quite a few mechanical engineering majors, but you would have to at least tell us where the energy is coming from. When you say "free energy" it sounds like your talking about a form of perpetual motion, which immediatly sets off my crackpot alarm.

I would recommend contacting that lab of yours and asking if anyone there wuold like to have an assistant/be a mentor for you. They would probably know better than any of us whether you have the know how to do work at their lab.

but consider the scientist, he has to get his university to put its money on the line and let him go out there to investigate it, he has to request the use of lab time and materials, in the end put his salary and his career on the line (because if he goes on enough of these wild goose chases he won't beallowed to go out looking for animals anymore).

ooh I want it http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7568551350470142686&q=spore+E3 anybody know when its coming out?

but I mean teeth that were specifically designed for speech, and served virtually no purpose otherwise.

think of it like this, every star in the universe is moving away from us. the rate at which they move away is proportional to there distance from us. This is because space itself is expanding.

yes, the UN assembly would have to decide on a definition of terrorist that everyone could agree to, I would say that any antion could pose further restrictions on what a terrorist is within its own borders, however a good start would be to say that any individuals planning on attacking a country other than their own, or recieving support from a foreign government automatically qualify as terrorists.

wouldn't it be wild if human teeth eventually evolved to allow for better speech

I think that the major flaw in current UN policy is that it will step in and pass a resolution calling for the end of a relatively small conflict between small countries like israel and lebanon, but when it comes to a large country like the US invading a small country like Iraq they do nothing. The main thing I see as being necessary is to replace the UN with something else, where every country is obligated in some way to obey the resolutions that the new body passes. It would also be nice to add in something similar to the FBI into this new body, its main function would be as an anti-terror force, working with member countries own law enforcement and on its own when neccessary.

insane alien your misusing newtons law of gravitation, the formula changes once you go inside the radius of the earth

one of my other points is that we don't know whether or not everyone who was watching JFK get shot was from the future and were just there to watch.

it also doesn't take into account that some people are more anal about citations than others. and if the use of this sort of creativity index becomes widespread than it may become commonplace for physicists to stop citing their sources properly.

thats assuming that 100000 years or so in the future when time travel is commonplace christianity still exists. or maybe half the people in jerusalem were time travellers and couldn't find out where or exactly when the crucifiction took place. or maybe Jesus wasn't a real person and instead was maid up by 1st century schollars as a way of teaching moral lessons that they thought were lacking in society.

or 7905.96 m/s

also the velocity at the center is wrong, I posted acomment in the other thread that the math behind that is wrong. you'd be going 7905.96 m/s which makes sense as the escape velocity for the earth is 11 km/s so at 8km/s you would have 0 chance of getting out of the earth's gravitational field, wheras at .1C you would rocket away from the earth.

I find it funny that they have pictures of all the officer's for the company, but none of the engineers who made the thing. although the way they set up the challenge makes it seem like they are interested in doing the science properly. Hiring a dozen scientists and having them run the thing through its paces and then having those scientists publish their results seems perfectly reasonable.

gauss's law also applies to gravity in the newtonian sense. Gauss's law affects all fields that radiate out radially from a point.

there's also a podcast available on itunes, under NPR scifri

yeah I accidentally dropped an R^2 along the line, it should have been [MATH]sqrt {\frac{GM_e}{r_e}}[/MATH] sysyphus your math doesn't work, you can integrate to acceleration with respect to time in order to get velocity, but not acceleration with respect to distance. Just look at the units

what prevents this stuff from being very very cold clouds of hydrogen and or iron/other elements?

klaynos could you explain that graph a bit more please?

out of curiosity does anybody here go to rutgers and or know anyone who does or is affiliated with it? I ask beause I think I'm going to transfer there in the spring and want to know if there is an oppinion on it. I was going to sit the year out in community college but after getting a look at the course catalogue and seeing my GED scores (which turned out to be very high) I think I may be able to transfer.

hmm so would it be possible to show mathmatically whether or not our universe matches one of those 10^500th string theories? probably not but it would be worth a shot.