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- From: xeno@iastate.edu (Gary L Snethen)
- Subject: Re: anti-gravity device
- Message-ID: <xeno.721858775@pv0558.vincent.iastate.edu>
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
- References: <1992Nov13.194018.1@adcalc.fnal.gov> <xeno.721776591@pv0558.vincent.iastate.edu> <FRANL.92Nov14182049@draco.centerline.com> <xeno.721800906@pv0558.vincent.iastate.edu> <FRANL.92Nov15130555@draco.centerline.com>
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 20:19:35 GMT
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- In <FRANL.92Nov15130555@draco.centerline.com> franl@centerline.com (Fran Litterio) writes:
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- > xeno@iastate.edu (Gary L Snethen) writes:
- > > franl@centerline.com (Fran Litterio) writes:
- > >
- > > > xeno@iastate.edu (Gary L Snethen) writes:
- > >
- > > > > As for perpetual motion, no law in the universe denies it's possibility
- > > > > No entropy need be increased by motion alone.
- > > >
- > > > That's like saying that the motion of a body coasting along a
- > > > spacetime geodesic (i.e., not being acted on by external forces) is
- > > > perpetual motion. Well, sure unless something pushes on it, it will
- > > > move along that geodesic perpetually.
- > >
- > > Exactly...
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- >Get real. That is NOT what is commonly meant by "perpetual motion".
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- That's why I called perpetual motion a misnomer...
-
- ---Xeno
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- >franl@centerline.com || Fran Litterio, CenterLine Software R&D
- >617-498-3255 || 10 Fawcett St, Cambridge, MA, USA 02138-1110
- >"It's not the thing you fling, it's the fling itself." -- Chris Stevens
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