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Unworkable Devices and misconcenptions

Unworkable Devices and misconcenptions

RE: Unworkable Devices and misconcenptions

Read the http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/museum/physgal.htm paper with big grin on face. Grin disappeared when I read the concluding sentences: "Perpetual motion machines have mechanical features different from those familiar and useful machines. The inventor hopes that such novelties of design may produce novel results. But the result is usually failure"

Shouldn't it have been "But the result is invariably failure"?

Gunnar Englund
www.gke.org

RE: Unworkable Devices and misconcenptions

Not necessarily.  There may still be novel results, even if they are not the desired results ;)

RE: Unworkable Devices and misconcenptions

Hmmm...

Gunnar Englund
www.gke.org

RE: Unworkable Devices and misconcenptions

Gunnar,

I think your word should be "inevitably" instead of "invariably."

rmw

RE: Unworkable Devices and misconcenptions

If humans make mistakes how come Murphy's law has no exceptions!

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