Overunity.com

[andygates]

If you fancy a textbook illustration of why engineers should study science, take a look at overunity.com.  It's a forum for overunity engineers - people building perpetual motion machines.  And so many of them are self-taught garage engineers (pretty competent, even) but they suffer from the Engineer Problem: unless he knows why the physics says a thing is impossible, then an engineer, especially an old, time-served and respected engineer, risks thinking that he's got a better solution that just has better bearings or a clever arrangement of weights or dipoles.

They come up with great, gloriously random and utterly wrong stuff, these engineers, like this:

I've come to a conclusion that gravity has the same property as acoustic wave, but in comparison to any normal acoustic wave gravity is a DC acoustic wave. You may easily compare this to DC electric or magnetic field. With acoustic waves it's just a bit harder to imagine. But gravity is just that - it causes a constant accelerating movement in bodies: acceleration is caused by resonance in the same way as the swing of a resonating membrane increases with time. The only difference is that under gravity there are no constraints and so the velocity is gained infinitely. The mechanism of gravitation is as follows: bodies gain velocity due to acoustic DC wave gradient - it is very close to magnetic DC field gradient as it affects a magnet...

I admit it, I stumbled on the place while looking for a concise explanation of Mach-Lorentz thrusters...

Comments

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

I tried reading that site for a few minutes, but it hurt my brain with its relentless cluelessness.

Did you ever find your explanation ?

[andygates.livejournal.com]

The one on Wikipedia is actually pretty good once you wrap your head around the "future lightcone" - which just means "all of the regular universe you could ever get to".

The critical verification will be in scaling up the effect from milligrams of thrust to, say, grams. And of course, that's where a lot of experiment fails because it's wrong. I love science, it's an adventure!