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From: liberte@uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU
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Subject: The Thorny Way of Truth
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Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 17:03:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  4 17:03:00 1985
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Nf-From: uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU!liberte    Nov  4 16:03:00 1985


Here is something new regarding the Newman discussion.

In "Nature", Vol 317, Sept 26 and Oct 2, 1985 issues, there is a two page
advertizement for a book, "The Thorny Way of Truth, Part II" by Stefan Marinov.
The ad is mostly text.  Some excerpts:

"In the documentary part of my book, I give information on the
N-machines of Bruce de Palma (California), Kieninger (Texas) and so on,
as well as on Newman's (Louisiana) "impossible motor" (as labelled by
Science, 223, 571; 1984).  The N-machines represent Faraday disks
cemented to their magnets.  Newman keeps his machine secret, but from
the information published in the press and from the letters of a friend 
of mine who visited him, I come to the conclusion that his apparatus may be
a Faraday disk.  However, none of these gentlemen has coupled a Faraday disk
with a Barlow disk, and for this reason none of them could observe creation
of energy out of nothing as I have done with my first apparatus shown
in the photograph above."

He starts the ad:

"With the aim of making clear the essence of the *perpetuum mobile* I have
invented, I now describe it (fig. 1). ...  [two paragraphs]"

"I cannot give an unappealable explanation for this *strange* phenomenon and
I sustain it *exclusively* on the experimental evidence, paying also a
100% credit to the reports of the constructors of the N-machines."

He gives some theoretical basis for related concepts:

"Einstein and his epigones think that if a piece of wire and a magnet
*move together*, then induction phenomena cannot appear.  Now I shall
show that this is not true.  In such a case we have for the magnetic
potential A in the wire dA/dt = ... [long paragraph]
A childishly simple explanation but THE WHOLE WORLD IS BLIND."

Well, it wasnt childish to me.  I would hope someone with a stronger
physics background would look up the ad and review it.


Dan LaLiberte
liberte@uiucdcs.Uiuc.ARPA
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