Posted by David - OR on May 14, 2009 at 05:29:38 from (208.67.204.213):
In Reply to: Re: Ot book posted by teddy52food on May 13, 2009 at 15:06:22:
Grounding the chassis of the machine is a basic safety precaution applying to all other types of electrical equipment. Unless the output terminal was "grounded out", or the machine was supposed to be a lightning rod, ground wires would not reduce power out.
It took more than 30 days for the NBS to assemble the necessary test equipment, and two months to run the actual tests. In the end, the court was satisfied with the speed of the work. Naive judges often call for impossible deadlines during court proceedings, but relent when shown what the actual difficulty is.
Confiscation? Newman and Newman's attorney were invited to attend during the NBS testing, but never showed up. Not once.
As for the "30 to 40" important people, they likely didn't spend the time to thoroughly analyze the measurement apparatus to figure out why the contraption apparently defied the laws of physics, and foolishly signed off on nonsense.
I have personally judged national high school science fairs. There are usually one or two exhibitors that show up with something that purports to be a perpetual motion machine, cold fusion, or the like. Invariably, it is a crack-pot assembly of spit, baling wire, and scotch tape, just like Newman's machine.
My attitude has been, OK, fine. Since you are proposing wholesale new laws of physics it is up to you to demonstrate the thoroughness of your measurements and the many different independent ways you checked and validated the results. I go through the provided experiment journals and have always found them totally lacking. There's usually one crude measurement and that's it. I move on without giving the exhibit a further thought. But out of 100 or so judges, someone is usually taken in by the thing. That's likely what happened with Newman.
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