Re: FN-FORUM: OT: Friday funny, sort of, also kinda scary

date posted 10th November 2007 20:18

On 10 Nov 2007, at 14:31, Adam Dyson wrote:

>
> Dom Latter wrote:
>>
>> On Saturday 10 November 2007 00:21:52 Adam Dyson wrote:
>>
>>> Getting over-unity energy by splitting water molecules is
>>> theoretically impossible
>>
>> It's not "theoretically" impossible. It IS impossible.
>>
>> The laws of thermodynamics are strict, but fair, and do not make
>> exceptions.
>
> I seem to recall that the first principle of science is that any
> "theory" is just that and might be disproved at any time, and that
> nothing in science is anything more than observation and theory. We
> cannot know for certain that the laws of thermodynamics hold true in
> all cases. They don't even apply at the quantum level and so "science"
> already acknowledges that it may be possible to create what appears to
> be a chemical reaction that meets the requirements of over-unity
> energy (perhaps from zero-point energy) - although that is unlikely to
> be achievable in someone's garage with a bucket of water, a frequency
> generator and an oscilloscope ;o)


And in fact, there are cases in both quantum and atomic physics where
energy can be (is) 'borrowed' from the universe for miniscule periods
of time. This could also be another exploitable feature of
fundamental physics.