>> ^deathcow:
If they didn't waste all our money on war, we could definitely build a machine big enough to destroy the universe.

You're assuming the two are mutually exclusive.

I think they will find what they are after, or they will find things which are equally profound.

> theorists will fiddle the equations to keep themselves in funding.

If they didn't waste all our money on war, we could definitely build a machine big enough to destroy the universe.

rembar, you've been on the planet long enough to know that laws are constructs, at best, agreed upon scientific explanations of the phenomenological world are up for constant refinements, and everything you know, could possibly be illusion.

I have never, and never will, argue that laws are representative of our understanding of the universe and are always being refined. The point is that changes in scientific understanding are due to gaining a BETTER knowledge of principles through empirical evidence, and there had damn well be better great evidence if somebody thinks they can break one of the most fundamental laws. And this isn't great evidence. This here is a good example of exactly the opposite, in which some high school or college dropout builds a machine with no idea of what he's trying to accomplish, and gets a result that he interprets as something other than what it is because he doesn't really understand it. Spirituality my ass, this guy is just sadly, horribly misguided. At best he could have stumbled upon a boost in efficiency. At worst he could just have fooled himself into using more energy than he thought, or he could be outright lying.

of course, NO SCIENCE WHATSOEVER was involved in the conception, construction, or explanation of this device.....

No, there really wasn't, so far as this video shows. If there had been, there would be an explanation for its principles of "perpetual motion".

Honestly, I would expect better of y'all to not fall for a shoddy gimmick like this.

This is an amazing peice of animaion. I would like to see someone build the machine though.

Yep. There's some insane work behind this!
Speaking of Goldberg, I really like that oldie pc game made by Sierra where you had to build goldberg machines! it was really nice.

Hey, he's a geek with too much money. But given a choice between $158 worth of gold, or $158 worth of aerogel, I'd go with the latter. It's very neat stuff. The reason it looks blue is Rayleigh scattering (same reason the sky is blue). Stephen Steiner, a high school student at the time, invented a revolutionary way to make this stuff, taking it from something that would take days, to something that could be done in seconds. Fast enough that, once he entered college, he build a machine to make this in zero-G, and has made a number of trips on the Vomit Comet to test it. Made in weightlessness, it has much less of a blue tint. The goal is to make one completely transparent that can be sandwiched between two panes of glass as the ultimate window. Imagine a window that someone could be heating with a blowtorch on one side, while on the other side someone could have their face pressed up against the glass, and be completely comfortable.

This is revolutionary stuff.

I will use this machine to build my army. Then I will use my army to build more machines.... it's a vicious cycle.