All Great Truths Begin With Blasphemies

I believe I may have just figured it out. No, not how to violate the first law of thermodynamics because, well, simply put that isn’t currently possible. Now, don’t get me wrong I understand completely that science is made entirely of ever evolving theories on how the universe works. However there are a number of theories that are more or less considered to be pretty solid. And for three hundred years, this was one.

Until today, supposedly.

I say supposedly because I think I may have figured out what the impending announcement from a certain Irish company claiming to have done what I spoke of above by inventing what boils down to a perpetual motion machine. Given the current crisis the globe and many of it’s inhabitants are facing, it’s no secret that everybody and there brother is searching for an answer. Some for the right reasons and some for a quick buck/easy vote. But this is a pretty big deal as it would fundamentally change everything we thought about the universe and how it works. And I had my doubts that in these times with all of the concurrent research taking place throughout the world in so many fields, that a small company in Ireland stumbled upon a violation to a law of physics… that would save the planet and it’s inhabitants. I mean, no one was even on this path. And they just fall into the oasis. So I started looking around the interslice and started to find things that appeared to be planted. I know I know, but humour me. Then the demonstration gets pulled due to technical difficulties.

We are experiencing some technical difficulties with the demo unit in London. Our initial assessment indicates that this is probably due to the intense heat from the camera lighting. We have commenced a technical assessment and will provide an update later today. As a consequence, Kinetica will not be open to the public today (5th July). We apologise for this delay and appreciate your patience.

Now either this is a total Beverly Hillbillies situation or there’s something rotten in Denmark. No offense Casper.

This sticks in my craw all night. Im trying to figure out the angle. I don’t think it has to be anything sinister, it’s just not right. Something about this is not right. I just got back from walking my better half to job number a million - oh the student life - and was telling her about the updated demo time and remarked, “I’ll check if it happened when I get back”. It didn’t. While trying to find if anyone had blogged about it one thing stuck out to me; this is taking place at a Museum in London called Kinetica. It was the name that popped up like crazy in everything and I recalled a conversation with a friend who runs a kick ass green site earlier when I asked what the deal with the museum was… and I had previously also said, “it could be an art piece.” And that my friends is what I think this is; an art piece to announce the opening of a new museum that has a focus on art and technology. And what better way to announce it than to show how important technology is to us. As well as the most pressing issue of our time. Not to mention all those people around the world interested in both of these things and using technology to watch it all. It would actually be pretty impressive. Not in a “solving a global crisis sort of way” but in a “neat” sort of way. And don’t get me wrong, I’m totally not the first person to call these guys out by far, but I’m really more interested in the “why”.

I base my theory on a couple of odd “coincidences” starting with the thing that started it all, an ad [pdf] in The Economist magazine making the claim and inviting scientists from around the world to test this theory in an experiment of their design, with full access to the technology and apparently the only stipulation in the contract is that regardless of the conclusion. Now that’s convincing. This was in the August 2006 issue. Kinetica Museum opened in October 2006. Kinetica’s official opening was to be heralded in by a demonstration of the most ground breaking technology that mankind has ever seen. This is to say nothing of what appears to be some very slick marketing and PR for a firm that claims to have only invested their own money, isn’t public and claims to have no commercial interest until the results are public.

Man, that would be great though.