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I'm probably wasting my breath, but it occurred to me that a mechanism I invented was designed, and only works, if angular momentum is conserved. On the 15th you said, "If you hang the same mass from each rim the force of the hanging mass will accelerate each rim to the same circumference veloc...

I think if you take the reaction of the earth into account, while ignoring its daily rotation, the initial and final momenta will be zero, both linearly and angularly.

If the aether moved with the earth, then waves in distant, stationary aether that travel into the earth's local aether would get swept along with it. This deviation in the path would make the star look like it is stationary relative to the earth, which would prevent aberration. Using the raindrop mo...

(As requested). It is the interpretation of facts that is at issue, the asterisks being incorrect: The heat pump is common proof that it IS possible to extract large amounts of *useable* power from a uni-directional energy source by creating a differential - and the energy obtained can far exceed th...

I think the assumption that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light is highly speculative Among other things, it is assumed that light travels at the same speed in all inertial frames. Then, they derive that these imply that nothing can accelerate to exceed light speed. But I have been to...

He did say the weights act in pairs, but I'm not aware of any clear clues about which did what. I agree with Jim, and add that "superior weight" might conceptually be better translated as "overbalance" (even though that word doesn't really make any sense), as in the distribution ...

What parts of special relativity are still speculative? (Maybe start a new thread for that).

He's partially right, but COP is arguably a better measure of efficacy than efficiency.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pump#Efficiency

I said it was just an FYI, and it's not like I was off topic. It was for the casually-religious reader, who may have forgotten what God said; I didn't even say if I believed it. :p I have no recollection that Bessler did magic; if that's all then he's less evil than me. P.S. Since you brought it up...

Greendoor, I had difficulty understanding; if the two axles are horizontal, then you wouldn't need so many wheels, because accelerating one wheel wouldn't make the platform rotate: if it did, the platform would try to rotate about the same horizontal axis, which would require it to break through the...

Just an FYI, Deu 18:9-14; When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. There shall not be found among you [any one] that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, [or] that useth divination, [o...

I suspect that a working wheel could be designed to produce the same energy during each rotation, regardless of speed, which would cause it to accelerate until it breaks. Of course it would be better not to design it that way.

I doubt it.

If you have a zigzag of brachistochrones from 12 to 6, then the weights will come down faster than a zigzag of straight ramps. The turtle toy is understood, as a gyroscopic effect: IIRC, there is an energy degeneracy (which is that a continuum of states have the same energy), so it can move among th...

I'm sure it's been discussed, but did you have a particular point to make about it?