----- Original Message ----- From: "Ardeshir Mehta" <ardeshir@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: 22 April, 2005 12:02 Subject: [rollei_list] Re: OT "the price of gasoline"" (was: Cost of LF (was: Austin has Unsubscribed)) > > On Friday, April 22, 2005, at 10:00 AM, A. Lal wrote: > > >> You may have forgotten, but the laws of physics not only do not > >> PROHIBIT perpetual motion, they DEMAND it! One CANNOT stop and > >> electron in an atom from moving around the nucleus. > > > > Please Ardeshir, not this again. > > Prove that it ain't so, then! You've got it backwards. If I assert that I can just flap my arms and fly, you do not need to prove that I cannot do it; rather *I* have to show you I *can* do it. I'm just going to repeat what I said the last time around. The example above is in no way a perpetual motion machine in the thermodynamic sense. > Just because something is said again (and again) doesn't make it false, > now does it. Doesn't make it right either.