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From: matt@oddjob.UUCP (Matt Crawford)
Newsgroups: net.research
Subject: Re: The Thorny Way of Truth
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Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 17:00:51 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  5 17:00:51 1985
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Reply-To: matt@oddjob.UUCP (Matt Crawford)
Organization: U. Chicago, Astronomy & Astrophysics
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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.
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