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growing up in the 60s; a video – telephone device was only commonplace on the Jetsons, Lost
in Space or Star Trek. It was pure fiction.

So, one side of the scientific coin, argument if you will, is that many in the engineering and
scientific community find prognostication or “fortune telling” offensive, and these engineers
and scientists, that work on what is believed “impossible”, are typically ridiculed, or at a
minimum heavily criticized, by their so-called colleagues or peers.

The second side of that same coin, is the overuse of the word impossible. The word impossible
is the most over used word by scientists, and especially academics. One example is the 1895
statements of the world-renowned physicist and mathematician William Thomson (aka Lord
Kelvin), the then president of the Royal Society of England, (probably the most prestigious
scientific body in the world), who stated in 1895 to the world that; “I can state flatly, that
heavier than air flying machines are impossible”, just a few short years before the Wright
Brothers lifted off at Kittyhawk. Even the highly revered Thomas Edison, jumped on the
bandwagon that very same year to proclaim; “it is apparent to me that the possibilities of the
aero plane, which 2 or 3 years ago were thought to hold the solution to [flying machine]
problem, have been exhausted, and that we must turn elsewhere”.

Fortunately for all of us, Edison paid no mind to his detractors. The first person to derive light
from incandescence (overheating a wire with electricity) was Ebenezer Kinnersley in 1761.
Fifteen years before what is now the United States of America would declare its independence.
More than 100 years before Thomas Edison would file his patents on the light bulb. The New
York Times printed that same year; “There is no practical application for the incandescent light
bulb”.

I point out just a few (very few), of the completely unqualified statements and opinions made
by scientists, and government experts over the last two centuries, not to diminish their good
works, but the point out that none of us really know, what we do not understand.

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My final example of this, are the 1 and 2 laws of thermodynamics. I will not be writing about
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the 3 law of thermodynamics, due to the fact that it has to do with temperature, which
currently is not a part of my research. The thermodynamic law that I am most concerned with is
the 2 law of thermodynamics, formulated around 1824 by Sadi Carnot.
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pg. 7 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

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By Dennis M. Danzik