It's a real problem tho!Grimer wrote:Ooo! I am glad to hear that. I have the finishing line in sight but I'm only at it in theory..... and nobody believes theory apart from the originator. :-)eccentrically1 wrote:Don't worry, I've been there and done that, and I'm already at the finish line, lol.
When i finally understood what Steorn were doing, it was the same thing - explain it over and over in minute detail and at best, one or two seem to get a vague idea what you're on about, while everyone else starts accusing you of word salad, which sets off a pack mentality, like blood in the water, at which point you might as well give up...
I've always felt somewhat critical of Bessler for letting such potential slip thru his fingers and die with him.
At the same time, this is balanced by a sincere concern that we might actually have dodged a serious bullet.
If there's dirty ways of doing this, but also clean ways, today we have the wherewithal to understand precisely what we're doing in ways JB could never have dreamt of.
So there's grave responsibility at both extremes - something that could be a world-changing force for good, but which also might change it in less fortunate ways.
And what of this place - what happens the day after D-day? We don't want to lose this place, do we? But if we live at least in the hope that one day the men in white coats might validate a solution one of us has found here - a runner's produced, replicated, proof positive and incontrovertible.. would we have killed our own forum? That would kinda suck tho? We like brainstorming this problem. It's a cool hobby. I don't want this to end.
But what when it does? What when you're certain you have it - that it's so simple, you can run it in your mind, double-checking all the details off as you go, again and again... only becoming more and more convinced that it's just obvious? You have it. It's done. Then what?
Does anyone really have a viable plan for that?
Mine was always to just build a wheel. I'd presumed that "The Solution" would be a wheel; that a mechanism would be found, in a design form, that could be easily demonstrated, job done.
Of course that's still the case, but...
What if what you discover isn't a wheel, but a completely general solution? A bleedin' physics principle. A set of sums. Obviously if it's correct, then it can be used to design and build a demonstration unit. But what until then?
What if you have to spend upwards of 12 hours a day with an NC700X stuck up your arse and you can't tell anyone about your solution, and the only people you can communicate with all think you're talking gibberish at best?
What would you do? Probably start crank emailing the DoE, tech and engineering companies, not expecting any replies and not getting any..
No doubt you're thinking "why not just go find a local university professor"..? But then what? What if they understand, what if they don't?
Yet all the while, you have this responsibility to do something with it ASAP. Burning a hole in your head. Can't think about anything else. Can't enjoy Mr Robot. Can't understand why still carrying on the shitty day job.
Can't patent the laws of physics. No design to show. Can't find anyone to even understand the gain principle, and only making myself feel a cunt for putting people on the spot with physics and maths that everyone hates, and then resenting them for just. not. getting it. and them resenting me for making them feel thick..
In a kind of Kafka-esque twilight zone, where dreams and reality collide and no one is ready for it - i'm not, and you're not.
You could try start a thread on Phyics Forums, but as soon as it starts to get interesting it'll get locked by the mods, leaving you unable to even respond to the litany of preposterous misconceptions the thread's bound to end in..
I had this stupidly naive notion that everyone would instantly be able to understand what i was explaining and want to dive right in. But it's not like i haven't been thru this before. Yet "should've known better" isn't helping solve the objective.
The 'objective', from the very first moment you're on your own, is not to be on your own on this. Someone else has to know. Immediately. What if you don't wake up tomorrow, or wake up fine but never make it back to bed? All that effort and opportunity, wasted, for a shaggy dog tale?
Would you be a responsible bearer, not squandering such potential?
You could stash it in a safe place, post it all over teh webz, but if no one can understand it...
I don't like being a cunt, putting people on the spot with things they're not really comfortable with. None of this is any of your responsibility, it'd be way too much pressure for anyone, much less a harmless little hobby forum.
It's only a matter of time before i or someone else who's managed to grasp this designs a viable demonstration. And if that means just a little more patience, so be it.
But this is the solution, and the only one possible. Whatever schemes or concepts you're currently favouring, or just curious about.. if they're not this then they're wrong. Not being nasty, not gloating, taking no pleasure from saying this either way.. I'm just growing exceedingly impatient for someone - anyone - to see what i'm seeing. Nothing else. Just to know that someone else sees it.. not for personal validation, but purely because of what it is.
Bessler's wheel.
Maurice Ward's Starlite.
You could probably throw the tech behind the Antikythera mechanism into the same bunch.
Waiting for mechanical inspiration to strike with some kind of simple design just seems like reckless squander.
Someone else needs to see what i'm seeing...
ETA: kinda like being the guy who spots the incoming killer comet... you don't necessarily want your name on it, but you defo want to tell someone, preferably besides the janitor or missus etc.