I also tend to think that this is a hoax, because I think it would be getting more attention if it was true. Also it doesn't appear that it's been tested, it could be bleeding off energy very slowly.
*THAT* said, for the physics snobs out there, understand that theories are proven and disproven all the time. Long standing, undeniable, principle theories have been overturned (with great difficulty) in the past. I'm not willing to accept that due to seniority that the "laws of thermodynamics" will never be proven false somehow, or worked around in such a way that they cease to matter.
Mind you, I'm not taking this on face value, and it seems sketchy to the extreme.
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Or course then again, if your much of a conspiricy theorist, this and a lot of other world changing devices have been created before and the various prototypes and designs are held by the goverment.
The theory is that "sudden, radical change is bad" so American science is carefully fettered and released gradually, and over time. Excepting our "X Weapons" (X meaning unknown) which are held back for emergencies.
Now, I don't believe this myself (despite having been recently accused of being a conspiricy theorist), however every once in a while something kind of creepy does happen. I remember back when I was a kid there was an article on one of those news magazine shows (it might have been PM Magazine) about a London Hairdresser who had developed a form of plastic that could withstand and absorb absolutly ungodly amounts of heat, and was supposed to be superior to the shielding used by The Space Shuttle for re-entry. Never heard anything else about it again, can't prove I ever saw it. No word on whether it was a hoax, or if it worked, or anything else. Every time I hear about heat issues of any kind (unrelated to this) I think of that.
*THAT* said, for the physics snobs out there, understand that theories are proven and disproven all the time. Long standing, undeniable, principle theories have been overturned (with great difficulty) in the past. I'm not willing to accept that due to seniority that the "laws of thermodynamics" will never be proven false somehow, or worked around in such a way that they cease to matter.
Mind you, I'm not taking this on face value, and it seems sketchy to the extreme.
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Or course then again, if your much of a conspiricy theorist, this and a lot of other world changing devices have been created before and the various prototypes and designs are held by the goverment.
The theory is that "sudden, radical change is bad" so American science is carefully fettered and released gradually, and over time. Excepting our "X Weapons" (X meaning unknown) which are held back for emergencies.
Now, I don't believe this myself (despite having been recently accused of being a conspiricy theorist), however every once in a while something kind of creepy does happen. I remember back when I was a kid there was an article on one of those news magazine shows (it might have been PM Magazine) about a London Hairdresser who had developed a form of plastic that could withstand and absorb absolutly ungodly amounts of heat, and was supposed to be superior to the shielding used by The Space Shuttle for re-entry. Never heard anything else about it again, can't prove I ever saw it. No word on whether it was a hoax, or if it worked, or anything else. Every time I hear about heat issues of any kind (unrelated to this) I think of that.