Fletcher wrote:Furcurequs wrote:Tarsier79 wrote:
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So you have to find an interaction unexplained by conventional science to find PM...
I don't disagree with that, but I would suggest that such an interaction could possibly be unexplained simply because it is a type of interaction that has just not yet been considered rather than that the accepted scientific laws currently on the books are incorrect or wouldn't apply.
In other words, the empirical laws in the books might actually allow for such a thing already and the scientists and others could just be ignorant of that.
This could mean they already have the keys to the kingdom but just don't know how to use them to enter in themselves and would attempt to bar others from entering in due to their own ignorance, hypocrisy and self-righteousness.
Dwayne .. I tend to agree with Tarsier on this one.
Fletcher, I did of course say that I didn't disagree with Tarsier. So, maybe I didn't express myself well?
Until we've actually seen an "interaction" that would allow for PM, we won't really know whether physics laws as currently accepted would be able to describe it.
It seems to me, however, that if you personally use commercial simulation software which employs mathematical calculations based upon currently accepted laws of physics to test ideas, you yourself are already allowing for the very possibility that I was suggesting.
Fletcher wrote:
The reason being that the current laws of physics are coherent (form a whole and are logical and consistent). They also exhibit symmetry as expounded by Noether's Theorm.
I don't disagree with that, either.
...erm, I mean I agree with that, too. ;)
Fletcher wrote:
This means that as a house is built from blocks from the ground up, one layer on top of another, so is physics and the formulas used to express those relationships.
To play on your building metaphor a bit, I don't really see "physics" as a house but rather as a building supply store. I, then, as an engineer have to choose from the available blocks and other building materials what it is l need to work with to achieve my desired goals. Is physics missing some key stone or key components that we need? ...or are all the needed pieces there already and we just don't know which to use and how to assemble them yet?
Of course, though, if a child grabs a few of those blocks and drags them over to his sandbox and pretends he's building a castle, I suspect it won't be a castle fit for you or me. There won't even be room enough for the couch from which I'm currently pontificating, for instance. ...lol
I would suggest, then, that we need to try to have the creativity of a child but also the knowledge of an architect, a structural engineer and a master builder... ...to name but a few perhaps applicable titles.
Fletcher wrote:
One of the basic tenets is the Work Energy Equivalence Principle. It says that KE is the currency for Work (capacity to do Work ( f x d )). It also says that GPE and KE, as far as masses in a gravity field are concerned, are interchangeable in that as one loses GPE it gains an equal amount of KE. It also says that this linear exchange in energy form is completely independent of path taken, as we all know from pendulum drop tests and masses on wheels turning losing height and gaining velocity.
Therefore, IMO, if a wheel with some black box mechanics (unknown) thru the manipulation of mass placement within a wheel, is able to give the wheel as a whole additional impetus/impulse such that it gathers Angular Momentum and KE over time with no additional input of external energy into the system, then this breaks the coherency and symmetry axioms.
That means if a mechanical black box principle exists to achieve a self sustaining wheel that can also do external Work then one of the foundations of the house is inconsistent for ALL mechanical situations and this makes the whole foundation suspect.
For a wheel to exist such as above then the laws of physics expressed in mechanical and mathematical terms must be faulty, and so we can not hide a wheel such as this inside the current paradigm no matter how unique the mechanism.
I guess my argument is that the fundamental building blocks may already be there in the physics laws that are already accepted but that there may be ways to assemble those blocks that mainstream scientists haven't been creative enough to consider.
I also should maybe restate some of my opinions that I've expressed in other threads in the past to help elaborate on my thinking.
If someone were to come up with a working device involving gravity, I suspect that DUE to the currently known and accepted laws of physics all of the energy would be accounted for if we used a rigorous physics/mathematical analysis. I don't AT ALL believe that a working device would magically create energy from nothing.
In other words, I believe a working gravity powered motor would fit the definition of a PMM only because attempts at such a thing are currently considered to be attempts at PM. I don't believe such a device would actually fit a definition of PM that involved the creation of energy from nothing.
I also don't believe a working device would tap in to some sort of magical space energy, "zero point energy," "energy from the vacuum," "energy from the ether," or be from harnessing "dark matter" or "dark energy." I consider talk of such things to be pseudo-scientific mumbo jumbo and/or science fiction, to be honest.
Though, of course, there is a valid definition of zero point energy and though "dark matter" and "dark energy" may be valid as temporary place holders for our ignorance as to why astronomical observations don't agree with cosmological calculations, I don't believe these offer us much hope as to being any sort of local energy source.
The laws of physics are typically defined under very specific conditions and are taught in a very piecemeal fashion. If we use them in engineering calculations, however, we may have to decide how they apply under different conditions and when multiple laws have to be taken into account at the same time, also.
In that I would try to patent my own speculative device design ideas if they were to work, I have tried not to discuss them in this forum except to mention them in a very general way. It would not be to my benefit to lead others to my ideas before I'm ready to share them.
In fairness to others, though, who could possibly get to where I am on their own, I also try not to lead people away from my ideas, either.
You know, I could be ridiculing and riding the case of someone "else" working on HIS "motion machine" so as to occupy his time and mislead others in the forum as I put the finishing touches on my own "motion machine," for a gravity wheel is impossible! ...lol
Sadly, though, I'm too honest for that, and so my ideas really do involve gravity and I really was pointing out that other person's errors with his basic physics and math. You know, "trolling" him. ...lol
There are times that I am actually tempted to volunteer certain information about some basic physics principles that might be relevant to the pursuit and that others maybe haven't considered, but I typically choose to err on the side of caution.
If you lived nearby, you'd probably be fully aware of my ideas, for I'm not beyond sharing my ideas with others - maybe even to the point of annoying others with them (lol) - but I don't think it would be wise to share anything online under the circumstances.