On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Joshua Cude <joshua.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Harry Veeder <hveeder...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 3:15 AM, Joshua Cude <joshua.c...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > >> >> > So, if you trust the reported *measurements*, then they are consistent >> > with >> > no excess energy at all. You have to trust their *assumptions* to get a >> > lot >> > of excess energy. And their assumptions are highly implausible, because >> > they >> > require (1) a discontinuous, eightfold increase in the power transfer >> > within >> > a few minutes, and (2) an output power transfer that is stable to within >> > a >> > per cent or two. >> >> If this is "highly implausible", then so is a lever. >> > > Please explain the connection. Discontinuously increasing the temperature of > a large thermal mass is nothing like a lever.
If you came from a community that did not use levers and never developed the rudiments of lever science, how would you react upon hearing a story that one man shifted a stone with a branch that you KNOW from the stones description should require at least 8 strong men? Is the story a tall tale? Was this man a giant? Perhaps the stone was hollow. If he is an ordinary man and the story is accurate, then he is a magician who knows the magic of the lever. Harry
