eccentrically1 wrote:
i'm interested too, but i can't share your optimism because he interprets his findings so far as a gravity wheel.
Bessler says his wheels were driven by imbalance [preponderance], & elsewhere that weights gained force from their motion/swinging, & that these weights were the constituent PM principle - and that his wheels were True PM [as described in his time].
One can always take the view that an additional force was manifest inside a wheel that caused the lifting or shifting of weights to cause that superior imbalance - that would be the 'environmental effect', an undisclosed gradient or energy source or energy sink used to create torque when required - it could be a serious contender, or not !
However, Bessler never admits to the use of any additional forces other than gravity obviously, & possibly Cf's from the toy page spinning top, if that is the correct interpretation for the top - so without evidence from him that an an additional force was sequestered to do the 'dirty work' we are left with his literal word that imbalance was the motivator of his True PM principle, & nothing more, or less.
That is the relevance & importance of Oystein's work as Bill says - it is the opportunity to finally get a steer from the man himself on what & how his wheels worked, or not ! - an opportunity to finally get some closure on some outstanding issues including the above discussion, so it should be interesting to all persons with pet theories including skeptics.
ETA: although Oystein says otherwise it may be that AP does provide a decoder to find symbols etc & that MT is not needed - I would suspect however that the encoding system revealed in AP could itself reveal a different mechanism in MT since that book was never published & so meet his requirement for posthumous validation & not risk premature disclosure otherwise - just speculations.
