In This House we Obey the Laws of Thermodynamics

Ah here is a great example of what i was talking about a few posts ago. About how the media can inflate pseudo-scientific crap and make it seem real. Even worse how the media can report on "science" and not check it's facts or even know what they are reporting.

Two links if you will
The Introduction and the Explanation.

Ok so what's there first thing wrong with this, what should make you suspect this article. First off is the word "Perpetual Motion" since Energy can not be created or destroyed this is imposable. I'm not saying It does not rotate, im just saying it must be getting energy from somewhere, it's not free. The fact that he explains it as a violation of one of our most sacred laws instead of trying to actually explaining it, along with the fact that it's being demonstraighted in an art gallery, tells me he is not a scientist and has no training int he field what so ever. This puts the entire article into questions. Many links are broken, strange for a world changing breakthrough.

Now lets examine his explanation. lets just pick a line in general.

The law of conservation of energy has been very reliable for 300 years, however it’s missing one variable from the equation, and that’s time.

Now this is interesting because it's a partial truth. I even had to sit and think about this one for a sec. If you look up the laws of thermodynamics it is true that the first law does not explicitly have a time term in it. There are derivative however which means we are dealing with changes not absolute quantities and changes occur over time. While the law is not time dependant the individual terms such as the energy of the system could change with time. The law only states total energy will remain constant. If you do work on the system it will gain energy but what kind of work are you doing. He ignores this. If work is done by the earths magnetic field as he claims this work is time dependant so you introduce time into the equation. This is tricky and not everyone would be expected to know this. However if we look up conservation of energy we find the following.

the energy conservation law is a consequence of the shift symmetry of time; energy conservation is implied by the empirical fact that the laws of physics do not change with time itself

This basically states what is true now will be true tomorrow and was true yesterday. The fact that his machine behaves the same way every day never changing means the laws of physics all ways behave the same way. This can only be true if energy is conserved. This has been tested to a hight degree. Astronomers see light that was created billions of years ago and they have verified that the laws of physics where the same back then as they are now.

One final line from his article. This is the one that is clearly wrong and can be proven so easily. The fact that this is wrong should lead you to see that other things he writes are also probably wrong.

McCarthy explained to Silicon Republic that Orbo technology works on the basis that occurrences in magnetic fields do not happen instantaneously, and are therefore not subject to time in the way that, say, gravity is.

This is high school physics, building an electric motor. How does it work? Changing magnetic fields. In fact changing magnetic fields are well know. Its a branch of physics over 100 years old. If it violated conservation of energy we would have known by now. That's lie number one. lie number 2 is the bit about gravity. Think for a second, is gravity instantaneous? It's a good question and it's easy to think it is. lets think about this critically. what would happen if the sun where to explode or even disappear. We would stop orbiting it but when, what is the speed of gravity? The answer is that Einstein showed gravity propagates at the speed of light so if the sun disappeared we would not know for 8 min when we would see it disappear and be flung out of orbit at the same time. This is easy to find out with a little Google work and contradicts the authors claims in the above paragraph reinforcing the fact that this guys as no idea what he is talking about.

I hope this gives you some incite into pseudo science. As you can see it is easy to misinterpret seemingly scientific claims as being true, Especially when they are reported by media. many claims however can be questioned with a little common sense and a small amount of searching. I encourage all of you reading this to be a little skeptical about what you read about such fantastic claims. does this machine rotate, sure it does. Is it free energy, no, it comes from somewhere, most likely the earths magnetic field or some other component in the machine the inventor does not understand. I don't need to know how it works to know it does not work the way he claims.