Freaky. But the timing would have had to be a bit different, before Hitler had a particular reputation, oh and the Japanese would have had to stay out of things....still...no one willingly supports "evil" do they? Everyone belieives they're fighting for freedom, God's on their side...ect.

So far, it's not 100% believable. The water/gas hybrid thing makes me think that he's using the gas to generate power for separating his water gasses or something. They neatly avoid talking about how much gasoline is used in his car, but they point out that it's only 4oz of H20. Then again, if it is real..if it's more effecient overall to separate the gases and burn them again using fuel cells and gasoline generators....who knows?

I'd like to see programs about this kind of thing on DISCOVERY or something.

This experiment has been around for centuries in it's basic form, both seeming to confirm and deny particle theory. There's TONS of info out there you can find with a simple engine search. It's not magic, just hard to understand. Waves and particles ARE connected, somehow, to probability or POTENTIAL. Since we don't actually observe in one instance, particles could POTENTIALLY go thru both slits...so we get results as if they did go through both and interfere with each other. But, if we observe it going through one slit and not the other, then it's no longer possible for the POTENTIAL to exist anymore...and the behaviour is different. Fascinating stuff...but not magic, conciousness or any of that the way we'd like to imagine.

At least that's my opinion.

Here's some research, explains it in a way that is not so mysterious. Check out the actual link for more details.

"The Copenhagen interpretation (of this experiement) posits the existence of probability waves which describe the likelihood of finding the particle at a given location. Until the particle is detected at any location along this probability wave, it effectively exists at every point. Thus, when the particle could be passing through either of the two slits, it will actually pass through both, and so an interference pattern results. But if the particle is detected at one of the two slits, then it can no longer be passing through both - it must exist at one or the other, and so no interference pattern appears."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment

ie: you change probability by observing. read the whole entry in the encyclopedia (it's not easy, but if you persist, it is understandable)

I don't see anywhere how the double-slit experiment is somehow liked to conciousness of some kind. It's not. Most universities with an advanced enough physics lab can do this experiment and the result is always the same. Observation is not an EFFECT, but a changing of possible variables and possibilities of somekind. It's amazing how worked up people get about something because they don't understand it exactly.

The experiment and it's results simple are what they are. Anyone trying to link it to God or mysticism of some kind is using it like they use any mystery to further these beliefs.

R U PEOPLE INSANE? Report him? Why? How's that gonna help the kid? I thought it was cruel also, but if you literally believe the guy should be 'reported' you're sicker than the father is. Video tells true story, but only part of it. You can only speculate whether he does other cruel stuff or that's the worst. I don't think it's smart or right...but the American mentality to turn everything over to the authorities (who always do things well?) is crazy.

Other than that, I thought it was funny...but I feel for the sensitive kid. Someone played this joke on me....the exact same one. It scared the shit out of me also.

Ha! Wow, ego overload. Some people are just determined to win an aurgument...doesn't matter if you're wrong or not. Even if he had reason to be pissed, a more clever political type would be calm on the surface...while quietly putting things in motion to roll some heads

He's obviously had a long day or he wouldn't be acting like he has PMS.

My father and I build one of these back in 1979....a MUCH LARGER ONE (the coil was 7cm in diameter and 1.5meters tall). Sparks would jump up to 6cm (or more at times) from the top of the coil and the sides of the entire 1.5 meter coil. When we turned off the light, the entire thing would glow surrounded by a blue plasma. We'd also have 5 or 6 kids hold light bulbs and on one end someone would recieve the spark and they'd all glow while we held hands. We could also keep our hands just a couple of inches apart and sparks would shoot from our fingers and braces...it was really fun and wild! Couldn't do it nowadays though....if I was 10 yrs old again w a tesla coil in the garage my father wouldn't let neighborhood kids near it...we'd get SUED.