Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.10 $; site uiucdcsb Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcsb!liberte From: liberte@uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU Newsgroups: net.research Subject: The Thorny Way of Truth Message-ID: <13300005@uiucdcsb> Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 17:03:00 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcsb.13300005 Posted: Mon Nov 4 17:03:00 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Nov-85 03:49:07 EST Lines: 43 Nf-ID: #N:uiucdcsb:13300005:000:1931 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 ihnp4!uiucdcs!liberte