5 Feb
1999
5 Feb
'99
4:03 a.m.
Eric Smith <eric(a)brouhaha.com> wrote:
Dwight wrote:
Yes, many still look for that magic valve. As a good rule
of thumb, don't invest in anyone that says he has found it.
For the most part, we haven't been able to model the
mathematical part correctly that shows that it can't be
done. We haven't found one case in nature that uses the principle.
This is usually a good case for there not being a way to
do it. As we look at everything man has done, we notice
that nature has often been using that principle for something
else for billions of years. It is vary important to explore
why we can't do it but foolish to believe that because we
don't know why we can't that somehow we will beat all the indicators
and find the trick that nature missed and only we could find.
Dwight
There seems to be controversy between the
physicists and
the charlatans. I don't think the physicists have any problem
here.
There are at least a few legitimate physicists that think that
it may be possible to tap the zero-point energy (which comes from
nowhere).
Remember that not that long ago most physicists didn't believe that
it was possible for a black hole to emit radiation, but now most
of them accept it. The ideas for how zero-point energy might
be tapped are similar. The books get balanced by a corresponding
loss of energy elsewhere (or perhaps elsewhen).
As far as I know, no one has yet proven that you *can't* borrow some
of the zero-point energy.