Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site oddjob.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!oddjob!matt From: matt@oddjob.UUCP (Matt Crawford) Newsgroups: net.research Subject: Re: The Thorny Way of Truth Message-ID: <1036@oddjob.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 17:00:51 EST Article-I.D.: oddjob.1036 Posted: Tue Nov 5 17:00:51 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Nov-85 05:02:11 EST References: <13300005@uiucdcsb> Reply-To: matt@oddjob.UUCP (Matt Crawford) Organization: U. Chicago, Astronomy & Astrophysics Lines: 33 In article <13300005@uiucdcsb> liberte@uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU writes: > >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. I looked this up and read it. The equations you refer to a formally correct but don't mean anything. He ends up deriving something analogous to x+y=0 implying no free energy, but then he says that x need not always equal -y. > Some excerpts: >"I cannot give an unappealable explanation for this *strange* >phenomenon and I sustain it *exclusively* on the experimental >evidence, ..." If you read as far as the middle of the fourth column of text you see that he has no experimental evidence. Describing another perpetual motion machine of his he states: "As in my 'coupled N-machine' [the first machine in the ad], here again the generated tension at a certain rate of rotation was lower than the driving tension which has to maintain this rate ... . To close this 'circle' I need only some $5000 to ameliorate the parameters of the machine." This same person, Stefan Marinov, twice threatened to immolate himself in front of different British embassies because Nature refused to print some papers of his purporting to disprove general relativity and demonstrate perpetual motion. _____________________________________________________ Matt University crawford@anl-mcs.arpa Crawford of Chicago ihnp4!oddjob!matt