In the middle of the night before last, I awoke and had a revelation or perhaps a sudden inspiration. I had thought of a way to drive a gravity-wheel using a different design concept. I studied it in my mind, turning it this way and that, and I thought it looked liked it would go and was a winner... and then I fell asleep. Of course in the cold light of dawn I recalled it and thought how silly, this won't work at all! The idea that came to me was a completely different way of making Bessler's wheel work. My secret principle was irrelevant to the working of this new design and the whole thing appeared to be an utterly different configuration to the one I've been working on for the last eighteen months. But I dismissed it as unworkable, although the odd thing was that all of Bessler's clues still fitted perfectly!
Now at this point I was going to use this so-called revelation to demonstrate how easy it is to fit Bessler's clues to our preconceived ideas, misleading us and taking us up the garden path on the trail of red herring and sending us on a slow boat to China (I love mixing my metaphors!). BUT....this morning I was considering for the umpteenth time, Bessler's (and mine) obsession with the number 5 and suddenly a thought occurred to me why he felt it was so important.
This thought suddenly brought back into focus my dream from the previous night and with five mechanisms I could see how it might work after all. I need to do some tests to confirm that my idea is either useless or the key to an alternative version of his wheel - and perhaps prove a theory that crops up from time to time, that the clues that we all study, refer to two different concepts and that is why we have failed so far - but I will post more details soon.
The version I have been working on all this time has yet to prove to my satisfaction that there has to be five mechanisms, but I can see immediately why this latest concept needs five, and I will just say that this one is so simple, anyone could make it, even me!
JC
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