U.S. Patent 6,960,975
Slight problem here... As the
National Geographic puts it:
Antigravity Machine Patent Draws Physicists' Ire
A perpetual-motion machine may defy the laws of physics, but an Indiana inventor recently succeeded in having one patented.
On November 1 Boris Volfson of Huntington, Indiana, received U.S. Patent 6,960,975 for his design of an antigravity space vehicle.
Volfson's craft is theoretically powered by a superconductor shield that changes the space-time continuum in such a way that it defies gravity. The design effectively creates a perpetual-motion machine, which physicists consider an impossible device.
Journalist Philip Ball reported on the newly patented craft in the current issue of the science journal Nature.
We need to get some Patent Inspectors who actually have a frickin' clue about basic Science and Physics. This is so wrong on so many levels.
A bit more from the Geographic:
Perpetual Quest
Perpetual-motion machines have long held special appeal for inventors—particularly during the concept's heyday around the turn of the 20th century.
Patent applications on such devices became so numerous that by 1911 the patent office instituted a rule that perpetual-motion machine concepts had to be accompanied by a model that could run in the office for a period of one year.
Heh -- great way to winnow out the frauds.
You can look at the
original Patent here
This is one of the worst pieces of technobabble that I have seen in a long long time. All of his priors have been proven again and again to be junk science -- his priors list is a Who's Who of what not to do:
Evgeny Podkletnov, H. B. G. Casimir, Henry Wm. Wallace -- a real rogues gallery...
Posted by DaveH at November 11, 2005 8:20 PM