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Thursday, February 7, 2008
Has Thane Heins Created a Perpetual Motion Machine?
Turning physics on its ear
It all began back in 1985, when Thane Heins started thinking about how magnets could be used to improve power generators. Has this college dropout done the impossible and created a perpetual motion machine?
Thane Heins is nervous and hopeful. It's Jan. 24, 2008, and in four days the Ottawa-area native will travel to Boston where he'll demonstrate an invention that appears – though he doesn't dare say it – to operate as a perpetual motion machine.
The audience, esteemed Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Markus Zahn, could either deflate Heins' heretical claims or add momentum to a 20-year obsession that has broken up his marriage and lost him custody of his two young daughters.
Full story here
Update: Heins a couple of days back demonstrated his machine to MIT professor Markus Zahn, an expert in electromagnetic and electronic systems. It proved interesting enough to stump the professor, as well. But Zahn thinks the idea is worth investigating further. "It's an unusual phenomena I wouldn't have predicted in advance," Zahn told The Toronto Star. "But I saw it. It's real."...so there!
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It all began back in 1985, when Thane Heins started thinking about how magnets could be used to improve power generators. Has this college dropout done the impossible and created a perpetual motion machine?
Thane Heins is nervous and hopeful. It's Jan. 24, 2008, and in four days the Ottawa-area native will travel to Boston where he'll demonstrate an invention that appears – though he doesn't dare say it – to operate as a perpetual motion machine.
The audience, esteemed Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Markus Zahn, could either deflate Heins' heretical claims or add momentum to a 20-year obsession that has broken up his marriage and lost him custody of his two young daughters.
Full story here
Update: Heins a couple of days back demonstrated his machine to MIT professor Markus Zahn, an expert in electromagnetic and electronic systems. It proved interesting enough to stump the professor, as well. But Zahn thinks the idea is worth investigating further. "It's an unusual phenomena I wouldn't have predicted in advance," Zahn told The Toronto Star. "But I saw it. It's real."...so there!
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