zero point energy

[BriVaps]

anybody out there working with this type of physics?

 

is it for real?

[swansont]

The same physics that tells you it's real tells you that you can't tap into it.

[BriVaps]

http://www.spiritofmaat.com/announce/meg.htm

 

`its patented by the US patent office

[Nevermore]

That is complete bullsh*t. It violates the law of conservation. Matter can niether be created nor destroyed. And, since E=MC^2, Matter=Energy=Matter. Therefore, there is no energy without fuel.

[ecoli]

http://www.spiritofmaat.com/announce/meg.htm

 

`its patented by the US patent office

 

yep' date=' complete load of crap. This device is simply not real... and definately doesn't do what they say it does.

 

We are announcing an event of historical nature. It occurred on March 26, 2002 — a day that will probably go down in history as being equally important to the quality of life on Planet Earth as that faraway, unknown moment when our ancestors discovered how to make fire.

 

How come I don't remember that day being significant at all?

[swansont]

http://www.spiritofmaat.com/announce/meg.htm

 

`its patented by the US patent office

 

Getting a patent isn't all that difficult, as long as you avoid calling it a perpetual motion machine. If the machine works, why aren't they everywhere? Is it time to invoke a conspiracy explanation?

[insane_alien]

omfg the world has gone to hell in a tutu

[JohnB]

I couldn't get the link to work.

 

That is complete bullsh*t. It violates the law of conservation. Matter can niether be created nor destroyed. And, since E=MC^2, Matter=Energy=Matter.

Firstly, matter can indeed be created and destroyed, you are thinking of energy.

Secondly, you're assuming the "visible" Universe is a closed system. Can you prove this is so?

[Nevermore]

Matter and energy are the same thing. Get your facts straight. And that remark about the universe is completely irrelivent, off topic, and I said nothing about the universe anyway. I am in no mood to deal with idiocy.

[swansont]

Matter and energy are the same thing.

 

No, they aren't. Photons, for example, aren't matter.

[Royston]

I couldn't get the link to work.

 

 

Firstly' date=' matter can indeed be created and destroyed, you are thinking of energy.

Secondly, you're assuming the "visible" Universe is a closed system. Can you prove this is so?[/quote']

 

Our galaxy is an isolated system, so what happens on larger scales is not accessible to shape our technology.

 

Nevermore, did you mean to say particles make up matter and energy ?

[insane_alien]

the galaxy is NOT a closed system. i think our galaxy is actually in the process of ripping up a wee tiny galaxy right now

[Royston]

I thought it was closed enough to not have an effect on the conservation of energy. This is why this device will never work. I didn't realise the first law spread to outer regions.

[Royston]

Duplicate...double oops

[bascule]

its patented by the US patent office

 

Which doesn't mean jack. For example:

 

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=5,443,036.WKU.&OS=PN/5,443,036&RS=PN/5,443,036

 

A method for inducing cats to exercise consists of directing a beam of invisible light produced by a hand-held laser apparatus onto the floor or wall or other opaque surface in the vicinity of the cat, then moving the laser so as to cause the bright pattern of light to move in an irregular way fascinating to cats, and to any other animal with a chase instinct.

[swansont]

Which doesn't mean jack. For example:

 

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=5' date='443,036.WKU.&OS=PN/5,443,036&RS=PN/5,443,036[/quote']

 

I don't know what's worse - that the patent exists, or that there are nine other patents that reference it. But I like that one of the inventors is Amiss.