aaaand were back

brief technical difficulties have been sorted out

anyways,



its kinda cute when people try to defy simple laws of nature. like Steorn and his "orbo" machine. he claims that it can create 30% more energy than it takes in. in theory it sounds like a good idea, but then again so does riding a 50 foot wave. so in theory we could hook two of these machines up together, one acting as a motor and the other acting as a generator (because we know that motors and generators are the same thing), and create an infinite amount of energy. we would basically have a machine that would be able to supply power to a bomb roughly the size of the big bang. so here we are in our world of infinitely created energy when a little thing called the law of thermodynamics has to come in and just ruin the party. we know that energy can neither be created or destroyed, just change forms. so it is physically impossible for this machine to "create"energy. in fact it is impossible for the machine to be 100% efficient when you factor in the slight wind resistance, small amounts of friction, sound energy lost, heat energy lost, earth's magnetic field acting upon the metal, ect. all these small things add up to energy lost on the machine making it impossible for it to get over 100% efficiency. well damn, i thought this crack-pot idea actually had a chance at succeeding.


i love how he even says that it is impossible.

because i was sick this weekend...

i was basically vomiting most of my stomach contents into that once-was-shiny-porcelain bowl of mine so i didnt really have time/ enough energy to make a blogpost. but it seems to have subsided now, so please forgive the tardiness of this post. now on to the "phun".



this neat little app allows us to play with physics like some kind of sick god bent on playing with colorful blocks and then turning them into water. yes, at the click of a button we can change the friction, mass, density, gravitational force, ect, and just overall change physics to better understand how it works. this app was originally designed to just kill time but i think that it has great potential. we could use a setup where we have spinning bats to hit a ball and we find the velocity of the object. or find out how much friction it takes for that box to start sliding downhill. it is a perfect digital world with no air resistance, perfect repeatable results, and im pretty sure that it cant screw up the lab computers more than they already are. not to mention that this program works well on my computer when i have trouble trying to run the java apps on the online text.
just consider it.