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The World’s Greatest Invention
Stand aside, perpetual motion machines and magic space-drives. All quail before the Photon Pulse Sword!
History has no shortage of naïve inventors who variously imagine they’ve created perpetual motion machines, cold fusion, EM drives that push out more power than is fed into them, and most recently a supposed gravity wave machine.
The common thread linking all these ideas, and so very many more, is that everything we know to be true about physics is wrong and besides who needs to know about physics anyway? It’s enough to have a half-baked grasp of some basic ideas and then run sideways from there.
Which is not to say that I’m opposed to people tinkering on the fringes, convinced they’ve invented a faster-than-light hamster wheel or a miniature black hole made out of crushed Twinkies. These “inventions” provide reliable amusement and distraction.
More importantly, they provide investment opportunities. Suppose, just suppose, one of these outlandish inventions really truly worked? Think of the massive fortunes to be made by any investor smart enough to get in early on the ground floor!
And so it is that I proudly present my own unique and physics-shattering invention: the Photon Pulse Sword™.
