That linked wiki page is dreadful.
Rigorously that fits a description of a magnetic rotary device where the field interactions are asymmetric, right from the source magnets. And that is a type of Maxwellian system that can and does exist in nature, but that Lorentz arbitrarily discarded in 1892, just to get simpler equations easier to solve algebraically.
BS. Examples in nature... but none given? Up to the limits of classical mechanics, Maxwell's equations are a complete description of all known electromagnetic phenomena, and are even correct for special relativity. If somebody thinks Maxwell is wrong, do provide an example.
Then the proven asymmetry of a dipolarity (separated opposite charges) will absorb ordered virtual photons (and their virtual energy) from the vacuum and coherently integrate it into observable real EM photon energy, and thus emit real observable photons continually without any observable energy input.
BS again. No real observable photons are output by a stationary dipole, only virtual exchange protons. Note that other kooks have talked about extracting energy from the vacuum but this is a different claim than being able to get energy out of a classical magnetic system. Consistency much?
Let's be clear: quantum electrodynamics preserves conservation of energy completely. You can't explain an overunity device by an invocation of quantum mechanics.
It's a classic example of throwing up a lot of quantum jargon hoping most people will think you're clever and smart. It's bull. Total bull.
The two scientists Lee and Yang, of course, predicted broken symmetry in physics back in the early 50s (particularly 1956 and early 57). So startling was this proposed giant revolution in physics -- if real -- that experimenters promptly proved it (Wu and her colleagues proved it experimentally in Feb. 1957). Again, this was such a giant revolution in physics that with unprecedented speed the Nobel Committee then awarded the Nobel Prize to Lee and Yang, in Dec. 1957. And since then, the implications of that vast revolution in all of physics has not even made it across the campus from the physics department to the electrical engineering department.
Nonsense.
There are many symmetries in physics. The symmetry-breaking addressed by Yang and Lee involved charge conjugation and parity. Charge conjugation refers to the laws of physics for antiparticles being the same as for particles; parity symmetry implies the laws of physics are the same if you mirror your coordinates. In fact, C and P are not symmetries of the weak nuclear force, although the product, CP, nearly is (the product CPT including time reversal is an exact symmetry of all quantum field theories). However, C and P are both symmetries of the electromagnetic force even in QED; symmetry breaking only appears when the weak force is included in the electroweak theory.
Neither C or P symmetry has anything to do with rotational symmetry, which is the symmetry that would have to be broken for this magnetic business to work, or time-translational symmetry, which is equivalent to the conservation of energy they claim to be violating.
Time symmetry is very important. Basically, time symmetry means the laws of physics are the same right now as they were this time yesterday - a translation of time coordinates is invariant. This is a feature of both classical Newtonian and all forms of quantum mechanics. Basically, if a system doesn't have an explicit dependence on time, then energy is conserved. This is a consequence of Noether's theorem if you want to look it up.
In QED, energy is conserved by this symmetry during all particle interactions, and therefore in all electromagnetic systems overall.
What evidence is there that electromagnetic interactions have this symmetry? Well, QED is the most precisely measured theory ever; verification of QED prediction of the dipole magnetic moment of the electron (ironically enough) are correct to a couple dozen decimal places. What's more, there's astrophysical evidence that EM physics hasn't changed much over the life of the universe, in measurements of the fine structure of the spectra of very distant objects, which puts an upper bound on the variation of the fine structure constant of something around 1 part in 10^5 over 90% of the universe's life. (I'm going from memory here, and there is one outlying study out of the several performed IIRC.)
Note that time translation is distinct from time reversal. The small violation of T reversal suggested by breaking of the CP symmetry does not involve time translation.
It reminds me of the invention of amorphous semiconductors by Ovshinsky.
Thus begins a few paragraphs of nonsense about how narrowminded and foolish scientists are, with the usual implication that every whack theory ◊◊◊◊ upon by scientists must therefore be the product of a misunderstood genius.
McCarthy and Steorn apparently do not realize that (1) a magnetic pole is actually a magnetic charge, and separated opposite poles are separated opposite magnetic charges (a magnetic dipole)
No, in fact, dipoles are just dipoles. A single electron, for example, is a magnetic dipole all by its little point-sized self.
That follows from solving the “source charge problem” of how any and every static charge just sits there and continues to pour out real observable EM energy (it’s quite measurable!) but without any observable energy input (i.e., the input energy is there and nonobservable, hence virtual, else every charge creates energy from nothing and experimentally demolishes the entire energy conservation law – and therefore demolishes most of present physics and thermodynamics).
Garbage. Static charges don't pour out energy. They can exchange virtual photons with another charge. And if you put another charge nearby that reacts to the field around the first charge, whatever energy you get comes from the finite amount of potential energy you expended assembling the charges in their original configuration.
What is confusing these poor deluded souls is that they don't comprehend real scientists attempting to explain the renormalization problem in quantum electrodynamics.
instead of the assumed “creation of EM energy out of nothing at all”, all EM fields and potentials and their observable EM energy are freely produced from the seething vacuum energy interaction by a combination action of a Maxwell’s demon and a Feynman ratchet, continually applied by those source charges.
More nonsense. It seems at this point they've abandoned their magnetic loop explanation and gone for a different which, in fact, does involve vacuum energy.
Vacuum interactions are a bit like loans: you can "temporarily" have virtual particles with a certain energy, but you have to pay them back. The uncertainty principle allows uncertainty in total energy for periods of time inversely proportional to the amount of energy involved and that allows a virtual particle exchange over a short distance; but when you actually make your measurements, the energies of the system have to add up correctly.
In modern physics, one simply cannot separate the charge from its ongoing active exchange with the vacuum. That is particularly true for asymmetrical Maxwellian systems. E.g., quoting Aitchison...
It is absolutely necessary to understand the scale on which these effects are significant. The quantum theory of electromagnetism reduces to Maxwell's equations, as presently understood without "overunity" nonsense, in the large scale limit (action much greater than Planck's constant). Furthermore, QED absolutely conserves energy as I mentioned above. All this business about QED is a red, red herring.
obvious ways. For info, google "patent obvious appeal".
