From: jeroen@nospam.please   
      
   On 12/1/25 19:14, john larkin wrote:   
   > On Mon, 1 Dec 2025 09:56:25 +0000, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid   
   > (Liz Tuddenham) wrote:   
   >   
   >> Bill Sloman  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Laithwaite   
   >>>   
   >>> espoused much the same idea too,   
   >>   
   >> That's all you need to tell you it won't work.   
   >>   
   >> We used to laugh at Laithwait's ideas and wonder how anyone could take   
   >> them seriously.  Unfortunately a lot of gullible (or ignorant) idiots   
   >> did ...so a lot of money was wasted trying to pervert the laws of   
   >> physics.   
   >   
   > The "laws of physcs" aren't fully settled. It's conceivable that some   
   > accepted conservation principles may not be absolutely true.   
   >   
   >   
   > John Larkin   
   > Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center   
   > Lunatic Fringe Electronics   
      
   If a discrepancy in Newton's action=reaction is found, it will be   
   something tiny, or we would have noticed it long ago. To propel   
   vehicles we need something *big*.   
      
   Laithwait went off the deep end. Pity, he seemed to be a capable   
   engineer, It happens. Nikola Tesla and Linus Pauling did it too.   
      
   Jeroen Belleman   
      
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