Posted by Nick Hall (195.74.122.243) on April 29, 2003 at 14:54:20:
In Reply to: Re: I'd like your opinions, regular posters posted by John Collins on April 29, 2003 at 07:44:49:
John Collins wrote:
"I can offer an opinion on the advisability of advertising the fact that you have solved the problem of Bessler's wheel, without having tested your hypothesis before hand with a working model. Don't!"
I totally concur! It is amazing how you can feel certain that you have the answer, but instead it becomes a means to refine your understanding of basic mechanics and physics!
I would also add several notes of caution when trying to fathom things out from the "clues" we have from Bessler:
-- There is real ambiguity in the accuracy of many of the English translations - his German was "quirky" to say the least.
-- He did deliberately try to mislead people.
-- His 'clues' have more the status IMHO of "coded prior art". They were such that if someone else went public with a working wheel before he had found a buyer, then at least he could point to his published 'clues' and with some suitable 'key' demonstrate that he had also discovered the motive principle beforehand. In other words, it was a kind of insurance that if he was not to be remembered as the first person to demonstrate "perpetual motion", at least he would have the means to show he was not a fraud.
Good luck!
Nick