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Rich the Philosophizer

Jan 1, 1970
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I am really surprised that anyone took him seriously. There is enough
pseudo-science about 'zero-point energy', 'bifilar coil' and
'piezo-magnetic' to put him firmly in the tinfoil hat/green ink brigade.
Surely we've had enough experience with the Flavoured Coffee Guy's
capacitor-driven vehicle and News2020 (of happy memory - I hope he was
eventually rescued from himself).

Actually, I believe that some of the magickal-looking stuff that they
talk about might be possible some day - they just haven't taken the
right approach. (IOW, there *might be* such a thing as ZPE, but we
have not yet discovered the secret to unlocking it.)

Remember that writer's "law" - any sufficiently advanced magick is
indistinguishable from technology. ;-)

I'm working on an approach to magick, but I don't know how long it will
be before I can arrange a demo - currently I'm hoping to meet someone
who's as nuts as I am and wants to test these theories in a sort of
collaboration. :)

Cheers!
Rich
 
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John Woodgate

Jan 1, 1970
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dated Sat said:
Actually, I believe that some of the magickal-looking stuff that they
talk about might be possible some day - they just haven't taken the
right approach. (IOW, there *might be* such a thing as ZPE, but we have
not yet discovered the secret to unlocking it.)

The problem isn't whether zero-point energy exists or not; it's rather
an easy concept once you overcome the initial counter-intuitive bit. The
problem with it is pretty big, though. There is a discrepancy ratio of
10^130 between current theories on the value of the energy. That's
rather too much to put down to 'uncertainty'.
Remember that writer's "law" - any sufficiently advanced magick is
indistinguishable from technology. ;-)

Yes. But please eliminate the 'k'. It's the most egregious mistake that
Sam Johnson made, attributing a final 'k' to words ending in 'c' on the
grounds that it was consistent with Anglo-Saxon. The Anglo-Saxon
alphabet does not, in fact, include the letter 'k'.
I'm working on an approach to magick, but I don't know how long it will
be before I can arrange a demo - currently I'm hoping to meet someone
who's as nuts as I am and wants to test these theories in a sort of
collaboration. :)

I have experienced two phenomena involving reasonable-sized objects that
I cannot explain. In one case, I extracted a gear wheel and spindle from
a clock mechanism, but it was simply not possible to do so. In another
case I dropped a spanner, and it totally disappeared. I mean totally;
there was nowhere for it to go that could have hidden it.

But that's twice in 68 years; these things don't happen very often and
when they do, in 99.999% of cases they aren't competently (i.e.
Randi-proof) investigated in depth.
 
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John Woodgate

Jan 1, 1970
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dated Sat said:
What would happen if you put, say, a 1N4148 right next to the amerecium
capsule of a smoke detector?

You could probably extract a signal similar to 'random, rapid fire'.
 
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Rich the Philosophizer

Jan 1, 1970
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Yes. But please eliminate the 'k'. It's the most egregious mistake that
Sam Johnson made, attributing a final 'k' to words ending in 'c' on the
grounds that it was consistent with Anglo-Saxon. The Anglo-Saxon
alphabet does not, in fact, include the letter 'k'.

Oh, dear. I wasn't talking about the Anglo-Saxon version of "magic" at
all. That's just sleight of hand and smoke and mirrors. I'm talking
about the Druid version of Magick, where you actually do telekinesis and
stuff.

Needless to say, there is still a considerable amount of study that
remains to be done. :)

Cheers!
Rich
 
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John Woodgate

Jan 1, 1970
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dated Sat said:
I'm talking about the Druid version of Magick, where you actually do
telekinesis and stuff.

You are still caught; Welsh doesn't have a 'k', either. (;-)

The Druids would have called it 'dewiniaeth', 'hud' or 'swyngyfaredd'.
 
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Rich Grise, Plainclothes Hippie

Jan 1, 1970
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You are still caught; Welsh doesn't have a 'k', either. (;-)

The Druids would have called it 'dewiniaeth', 'hud' or 'swyngyfaredd'.

Well, I know that the word "Magick" came from somewhere, and I'm not
cutting myself off from that possible extension of the definition of
Reality As We Know It, just quite yet. :)

My uncle Dick Wigley, RIP, was a Welshman, and they had some Welsh books,
which I couldn't read, of course. ;-) There's a park in Lake Crystal, MN,
with a Welsh name that's about 36 letters long, with about two freakin'
vowels. ;-P

Cheers!
Rich
 
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John Woodgate

Jan 1, 1970
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In message <[email protected]>, dated Mon,
11 Sep 2006, "Rich Grise, Plainclothes Hippie"
There's a park in Lake Crystal, MN, with a Welsh name that's about 36
letters long, with about two freakin' vowels. ;-P

W and Y are vowels, too. W is 'oo'. Y can be 'ee' or 'uh'. U is short
'i'. Most of the diphthongs beginning with A or E are 'aye'.
 
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