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Procter and Gamble heir claims to have discovered the key to universal energy

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"The second law of thermodynamics, which states that energy cannot remain perpetually in motion in a closed system, doesn’t apply to the torus, Mr. Gamble argues on the Thrive blog, because 'a torus is not a closed or isolated system.'"

Wait, what? If I put a box around a torus, it can somehow exist outside of that box?

This isn't an article about anything scientific. It's a gushing biography of Foster Gamble and his "eccentric" ideas.

What specific claims does Mr. Gamble make about producing energy?

(After reading the article, it looks like a non-falsifiable claim - which in my mind makes it a religion, and not a scientific advance.)

Happy to be proven wrong.

Foolishness knows no barriers and rich people can be fools just as easily as poor people. If this guy was poor this would not be news.

Who voted up this complete nonsense?

Agreed! What the heck? “What he discovered was shocking: that the torus is the secret to an abundance of energy, that it is embedded in crop circles and used by aliens to travel through galaxies, and that a complex political conspiracy is keeping free energy technology out of the hands of average Americans.”

The group that's right next to the group that upvotes anything Kim Dotcom related.

There is a group of people paid to sit at computers and upvote all the crazy fake free energy ideas, so that nobody notices my real free energy idea.

I think it is important to realize that MANY people believe these things and think like this. Going to a university and then becoming an engineer has caused me to take for granted the fact that there are MANY people who believe or can be convinced by this kind of stuff.

> Mr. Gamble boarded at the Choate School in Wallington, Conn.

If the article can't get even the verifiable facts right, why would anyone bother with the rest?

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