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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: "Free Energy Machine"
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Date: Sun, 23-Mar-86 04:51:13 EST
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In article <981@felix.UUCP> daver@felix.UUCP (Dave Richards) writes:
>My question is, can someone please explain in layman's terms exactly what
>he said the principle was that allows his machine to work?

I already did this, in an earlier posting.

Newman's claim, when mapped into comprehensible terms, is that
his machine extracts energy from the atoms in the material it
(actually, the conductor) is made of.  His explanation of the
mechanism involves very confused ideas about the interaction
of conductors and magnetic fields.  Specifically, he appears
to believe in a mechanistic model that allows no room for
field energy, so from his viewpoint all energy involves atomic
motion.  The Tonight Show explanation was curtailed too soon
to hear his total explanation, which appears to assign some
r^ole to gyroscopic action on an atomic scale, but the
explanation that was aired was full of errors and jumping to
conclusions.  Faraday would have been embarrassed.

Of course, the whole domain of physics within which Newman's
machine operates, according to his own explanations, has a
precise mathematical description that has been subjected to
innumerable experimental verification tests over the years.
This is why physicists tend to strongly doubt that anything
like a really new principle is involved.  Certainly, some of
Newman's explanation contradicts well-established knowledge
about electromagnetism.  It is generally considered the burden
of the innovator, not of establishment scientists, to explain
away such contradictions..

From the brief film clip of the machine's operation, I would
guess that it's a motor-generator with a short duty cycle on
the generator side and/or a highly inductive load.  This would
explain why insufficiently careful measurements and/or
calculations might lead some investigators to think that the
machine was producing more energy than was being put into it.