reply to post by TarzanBeta
Thanks for your reply TarzanBeta,
Let me see if i can address some of what you ask;
The 'Energy cannot be created or destroyed' claim, is one that comes up quite a lot in these topics. Understandably so, considering it is a long
accepted tenet.
I don't claim to know the intricate details of advanced alternative physics.
But i do know humanity and human history, and understand the linear path to advancement and higher knowledge. Advances sometimes happen very quickly,
especially with a prime mover driving the innovation and experimentation. A sad example of this is war. War tends to see quantum leaps in
technological understanding and design, through necessity and well...fear of death.
I don't know if energy can or cannot be created. I do know though, that it cannot be created or destroyed according to conventional physics, only
changed from one form to another.
I find it hard to fathom that humanity claims 100% impossibility, in an area we actually know very little about! We have absolutely NO idea what most
of the Universe actually consists of!
Up to 95% of it is totally unknown to us. It is considered 'dark' by scientists. (up to 70% 'dark' energy, up to 25% 'dark' matter and up to 5%
known matter)
What this actually means is that we currently only 'know' what 5% of the Universe actually is! The 5% is made up of all the stars, planets, nebulae,
ice, dust and gas. The other 95% is...not currently known.
Familiar practices and procedures (and results) on Earth and local space aside, how can ANY scientist or physics lecturer claim 100% impossibility of
ANYTHING only knowing at most 5% of the physical Universe?
Perhaps the 'additional' energy is not being created at all! It may not be beyond the realms of possibility that the energy is being converted to an
as yet unknown form of energy, similar to conventional recognised energy, yet somehow changed..stretched or elongated. If this is similar to what is
happening, then energy is not being created or destroyed, just changed.
Maybe it's not that at all, and some other process is applicable.
Science has theorised that there may be many, many more dimensions in existence, than we currently recognise. As many as 20 has been proposed. Since
we know very little about these additional dimensions, it naturally follows that we know very little of the physics that operates contained within
them. It could be that the energy is coming from one of these, who knows.
My argument would be such that, Not understanding does not automatically mean 'impossible'. Physical tenets do not rely on human understanding to
operate, it just takes human understanding for us to make use of those tenets.
All the while people are shouting at the top of their lungs that this is heresy, is against the 'laws', is impossible and so on, real research is
not going to be a popular choice to attract funding or grants, so any discovery or alternative methodologies remain out of reach.
If the Universe is Infinite, then energy will be too. We won't 'run out' of it.
There is an obvious reason to obfuscate knowledge in this area, apart and separate from the financial and economic reasons to shelve or bury this kind
of physics, and that is misuse.
With as much energy as we would need or want, come the possibility that the technology will be used for bad as it will be used for good.
A weapon with enormous energy potential would be a fearful thing..and the governments of the world know this.
I don't think wanting control of energy is wanting control over nature.
At least not on an individual basis.
The bottom line for me is that i am certainly in no way an expert regarding ANY of issues. Nothing approaching it actually!
Let's see what happens tomorrow and take it from there.
[edit on 29/1/2010 by spikey]