Posted by grim (206.162.192.40) on August 17, 2002 at 05:28:54:
Mr. Lansdtrom:
This may be off the subject of perpetual motion, but I believe it may be important to point it out , as it seems to settle the question of how complex life appears out of nowhere from the nonliving environment. I went to Mr. Rustad's website and found a link to the following: www.rexresearch.com/crosse/crosse.htm. It concerns a man named Andrew Crosse who was attempting to grow crystals using ground minerals, acid solution and electrical current. Instead of crystals, he grew "white lumps" that later grew appendages, eventually detached themselves from the host mineral and began to walk. Hundreds of them! Michael Faraday himself and others were able to duplicate the experiment, and Faraday defended Crosse before the Electrical Society in England. Crosse became instantly famous (or rather infamous). The churches condemned him as a heretic, devil, etc. and camped out at his lab to do "an exorcism" of him and his house. He died a very bitter man. Site has extensive description of the experiment, pictures of the equiptment setup, basically a detailed illustrated report on the whole enchilada. This obscure fellow apparently, in the 1830's went further than the modern Stanley Miller/Harold Urey "primordial soup" experiment of relatively modern times. Like I said, this has little to do with Bessler, etc., but in may be one of the greatest discoveries in the history of humankind. FYI>
regards,
grim