This actually happens quite a bit.Gregory wrote:I think some physicists would be very quick to jump and debunk the concept in a minute. Also lots of physicist would think that if I take an overbalanced wheel design to them for analysis, then I must be a nutjob for sure. I agree that most physics guys can sound very arrogant and harsh at times, and it is a possibility that sometimes they make mistakes, or mistakenly try to disprove something what is actually a workable idea. But in average this scenario just rarely happens, and the opposite is true most of the time, especially when the subject is some well-known or simple phenomena.
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