Posted by Joel L. Lewis (24.197.38.131) on May 19, 2003 at 15:26:37:
In Reply to: Re: Darren, sorry one last one posted by Darren on May 19, 2003 at 13:49:08:
Oh well.:-D Worth a shot. I don't know about finding it in Newton's 'laws', but lemme tell you what I've come to suspect might have been at least part of Bessler's secret-or at least perhaps another method of getting the same result.:-)
Picture a lever, and on each end a smaller lever, with(for the sake of making it easier to picture)equal weights on each end of the smaller lever. Now, the thing is, no matter what position the smaller levers may be locked in at their pivots, the ballance of the large lever is unaffected, or so I understand. Now, imagine both end levers locked at their pivots in line with the larger lever, and rotate the lever to vertical. Now, what'll happen if the two end-levers are released at their pivots(by, say, "removing pins?" *wink wink*) so they can rotate freely. Yup, that's right-they'll turn to right themselves, and actually end swinging back and forth several times if the axle is well-oiled before settling at level. Now, doesn't that count for 'free energy' to be tapped without moving any weights, that could take a 'wheel' 'over the hump'?
:Sorry Darren-can't resist fishing:-D
: No problem Joel!
: :That 'principle' of physics wouldn't be related to the way wheels around the rim of a rotating wheel begin to rotate themselves, albeit in an opposite direction, would it? *Raises eyebrow*
: Nope *shakes head*
: Bessler wrote some things, responses to skeptics, and now, looking from this new perspective I totally think he was taunting Newton, one of his contemporaries and someone who wouldn't even go look at the wheel because it "broke" one of his laws.
: Bessler said the wheel consisted "of weights arranged according to several a priori, that is, scientifically demonstrable, laws of mechanical perpetual motion" and I believe that was a poke, a way of saying one of Newton's *well known* three laws of motion was the foundation and reason for his wheel's success. I think it's pretty funny actually.
: Read Newton's three laws again and then see if you can make "perpetual" fit in there anywhere. It's really rather obvious ;-)
: Darren