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introduce me to this particular, but complicated writing of Leo Szilard . The Szilard paper was
then neatly tucked by me, into one of my Funk and Wagnall encyclopedia volumes, where it
remained until I was a freshman in high school.

During my high school years, I had a science teacher in Wyoming by the name of Mr. Wooten. I
admired this teacher. Mr. Wooten encouraged me to expand the effort that I put into my
mostly unimpressive days in high school. While I probably had a deeper understanding of the
laws of thermodynamics than most 16-year-olds, the writings of Leo Szilard, were still cryptic at
best. So, to show that I was no “dude” (a profanity in Wyoming), or duffer, I decided to write
about the Szilard paper as one of my assignments. After reading the document dozens of times,
as a teen, and as I constructed my high school paper, it occurred to me that the person that
could demonstrate what Szilard was proposing, would really accomplish something. For
whatever reason, the Szilard paper stuck with me, but probably on the basis that I had read it
so many times in such a short span. It also earned me a rare “A”. As what any clever,
underperforming student would do, I learned very quickly to recycle my Szilard epistle,
annually, and sometimes two and three times annually, in high school, college and executive
education, to drive up my grade averages, or impress, without expending any additional energy.
The beauty of the work of Leo Szilard is that the vast majority of high school and college
instructors had never heard of him. Szilard’s obscurity, and the many report papers I wrote
about him, painted me as a deep thinker in the eyes of many teachers, aside from my primary
goal of just quickly recycling previously completed work. Literally, an experience, of getting
something for a small input. Success!

The unexpected benefit of my report recycling is that I must have read the Szilard entropy
paper, well over 200 times. I even started to understand some of what was to me obscure
math. Crafting and refining my reports, I was over a period of more than a decade, infused with
Szilard’s proposal. Was it possible for an intelligent being to intervene in a thermodynamic
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system, and beat the 2 laws of thermodynamics? Is there a power source that does not
produce the by-product of heat?

I would not expect the readers of this brief to take a deep dive in to the Leo Szilard paper as a
sidebar to this writing, but if you choose to do so, I have included a copy as a reference, and if
you skip the advanced math, you will glean knowledge, and more importantly the basic
principle, or thought experiments behind Leo Szilard’s theory.

I will now in the simplest terms possible explain the basis a part of the Szilard paper. It is
centered around entropy. Entropy is chaos. Entropy is a condition, or a set of conditions, that
tend to increase, and that are counterproductive to a system, that uses and or produces

pg. 4 A Demonstration of Induced Angular Momentum in a Flywheel Energy Storage and Harvesting Device Through the Elimination and Control of Entropy in a Thermodynamic System
in the Presence of a Paired Permanent Magnetic Field

By Dennis M. Danzik

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