[time-nuts] Anyone got a reference for perpetual motion advert in New Scientist?

[Brooke Clarke]

Hi Dave:

I've got some information on the various versions of the Digital-Retro-Turbo-Encabulator at:
http://www.prc68.com/I/DRTE.shtml

Have Fun,

Brooke Clarke
http://www.PRC68.com
http://www.end2partygovernment.com/2012Issues.html

David Kirkby wrote:
> About 20-25 years ago someone took out an advert around 7 pages long
> in New Scientist. In this advert, he "published" a scientific paper,
> since no mainstream journal would publish his paper.
>
> It was based on his belief that the speed of light in vacuum was not a
> constant, but using his very accurate timing equipment he could detect
> a difference as the earth approached or went away from the Sun. As a
> result of this, he claimed to show, using maths I could not follow,
> that it would be possible to make a perpetual motion machine. He said
> he would produce a working perpetual motion machine in about 5 years.
>
> Does anyone have any recollection of this? Better still, has anyone
> got the paper? I'd be interested in seeing it.
>
> I'd have to guess what the advert must have cost him, but I've never
> seen any advert as big in New Scientist - that said, I don't often buy
> it now.
>
> Dave
>
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