Lighting a match to a fuse to set off a stick of dynamite is no different than pushing a boulder off a cliff. In both cases, the object has potential energy. Some event happens that triggers the release of that energy. At the end of the event, the energy is converted to some other form.
These scenarios are both excellent examples of the second law of thermodynamics, which your pal Crackpot Joe Newman doesn't seem to think applies to him. Despite conservation of energy, entropy (disorder) always increases. So your stick of dynamite will never become whole again on its own, neither will the boulder return on its own back to its original position on the cliff.
You would have us believe that Crackpot Joe has achieved some sort of nuclear fusion or fission (it's never clear which). A lot of guys far smarter than Newman have made similar claims that fell apart under peer review. It seems that the most comprehensive peer review of Newman's "work" was done by NIST, and they categorically refuted his absurd claims.
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Today's Featured Article - Harvestin Hay: The Early Years (Part 2) - by Pat Browning. The summer of 1950 was the start of a new era in farming for our family. I was thirteen, and Kathy (my oldest sister) was seven. At this age, I believed tractor farming was the only way, hot stuff -- and given a chance I probably would have used the tractor, Dad's first, a 1936 Model "A" John Deere, to go bring in the cows! And I think Dad was ready for some automation too. And so it was that we acquired a good, used J. I. Case, wire tie hay baler. In addition to a person to drive th
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