On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Joshua Cude <joshua.c...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Harry Veeder <hveeder...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 3:15 AM, Joshua Cude <joshua.c...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>> > 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

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