Phil’s Dad wrote: Until then it is exacltly as you said “Theories are only true until something comes along to disprove them.” Nothing has and so it remains “true”. Your words David.

I see. Now as a bit of useful feedback, in the future you might want to state exactly what you mean, because the “Until then…” was very ambiguous, and what first came to mind was nothing whatsoever like what you intended to convey.

Now I’d like to ask another question of you.

Have you been reading this thread, and have you been following the discussion all the way, or did, perhaps, you just tune in for the last little bit?

Because maybe if you had been reading the whole thread, you might have seen this little bit:

dash wrote: Seems like it would be trivial to test this. Have a very accurate scale with a weight on it underneath a spinning object, see if the scale changes as the spinning object goes faster and faster.

AFTER which, we see this:

Brian H wrote: TAANSTAAFS = There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Spin. Or gravity.

The assertion being that the theory by Jin He being discussed is automatically false, out of the gate, because it would violate conservation of energy.

Maybe you can see the problem? That this is not, in fact science, or the scientific method?

I present an experiment that would test the validity of the theory. And the theory is dismissed because, by definition, the theory, if true, would negate conservation of energy. So therefore there is no need of performing the experiment. And moreover, because I’m even considering the theory, I must have some kind of unfulfilled need for special Divine Revelation…

Strange, Phil’s Dad, that you would chime in on this discussion. And on which side you chose to support.

Maybe it’s not so strange. Perhaps this is all part of the same underlying reason why Focus Fusion itself has so much trouble getting funded. Perhaps it could be called The Herd Mentality.