I desire to break a law of physics.

[wilfulton]

Take a junk food addict, duct tape a fishing pole to his back and hook a twinkie in front of him.

It'll work until he keels over from exhaustion, but then you can just say the warranty expired.



(yes, I know, but I couldn't resist)

[wolveraptor]

Actually, wasn't an article posted a while ago about some "Law of Fluctuation", where the smaller a system was, the more likely it was to break the 2nd law of thermodynamics? It was said to make things more difficult for developing nanotechnology.

[Winston Blake]

I've had many discussions with a friend of mine about this topic. I have a desire to create a perpetual motion machine [and I pause to allow the laughter to subside]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anyway, I have attempted a few experiments and have yet to achieve my goal [I pause again for more laughter and statements such as, but not only, "Well, duh!"].

I have one final hypothesis to experiment on, and [barring any future insights] should this one fail, I will bow to the god of physics. I'm obviously not going to say what the mechanism will be, but I just need to get some needed parts before starting.

Yeah, I know. I'm done for.

I remember when i kept trying to break Earnshaw's Theorem with a bunch of bar magnets, to make stuff float like with SW repulsors.

Trying to break laws of physics, or more importantly, learning an understanding why each of your ideas won't ever work, is a good way to get interested in learning about this sort of stuff.

[Glimmervoid]

Actually, wasn't an article posted a while ago about some "Law of Fluctuation", where the smaller a system was, the more likely it was to break the 2nd law of thermodynamics? It was said to make things more difficult for developing nanotechnology.

There apparently is a universal tick (think sort of thief of time-disc world with out the universe destroying part). Energy can enter and leave the universe but as long as it is hear or away for less than this time (I cant remember what it is) the universe dose not “notice”.

[Dooey Jo]

There apparently is a universal tick (think sort of thief of time-disc world with out the universe destroying part). Energy can enter and leave the universe but as long as it is hear or away for less than this time (I cant remember what it is) the universe dose not “notice”.

You're probably thinking of the Planck-time, which is 5e-44 seconds, or something like that. The Heisenberg uncertainity principle states that
Δx*Δp >= 0.5*h[bar]
where Δx is the deviation in position; Δp is the deviation in momentum and h[bar] is Planck's constant divided by 2*pi (sometimes called Dirac's constant).
The unit of Δx*Δp will be kgm^2/s, which incidentally is the same as Js (Joule-seconds), which is the unit Planck's constant is usually expressed in (otherwise it wouldn't have been much of an equation, if there were different units on both sides). So the uncertainity principle could also be formulated as
ΔE*Δt >= 0.5*h[bar]
This can be used to describe quantum fluctuations, that is virtual particle-antiparticle pairs popping in and out of existance; the more energetic they are, the shorter they can exist. Apparently, Bearden used this effect to "borrow" energy from the universe in his MEG device (and I cannot stress enough that the device has not been conclusively proven to actually work as he claims).

[Magnetic]

I've had many discussions with a friend of mine about this topic. I have a desire to create a perpetual motion machine [and I pause to allow the laughter to subside]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anyway, I have attempted a few experiments and have yet to achieve my goal [I pause again for more laughter and statements such as, but not only, "Well, duh!"].

I have one final hypothesis to experiment on, and [barring any future insights] should this one fail, I will bow to the god of physics. I'm obviously not going to say what the mechanism will be, but I just need to get some needed parts before starting.

Yeah, I know. I'm done for.

I remember when i kept trying to break Earnshaw's Theorem with a bunch of bar magnets, to make stuff float like with SW repulsors.

Trying to break laws of physics, or more importantly, learning an understanding why each of your ideas won't ever work, is a good way to get interested in learning about this sort of stuff.

Thanks for your reply, Winston.

Actually, I have a similar idea of "floating" something, and I just can't wait to see how it can't be done!!

Yes, it has been an interesting learning experience.