Just back from an excellent few days in Spain and I was unable to think of a subject to blog about so this is some thoughts I had on catching up with comments here and on the BW forum.
I read with tremendous sympathy and understanding, the numerous expressions of optimism, both here and on the BW forum, of all we glass-half-full researchers, experimenters and builders each on the verge of success and barely able to contain our utter excitement that it is all but in the bag.......only to find some minor problem that we must adjust before success crowns our endeavours!
I read with tremendous sympathy and understanding, the numerous expressions of optimism, both here and on the BW forum, of all we glass-half-full researchers, experimenters and builders each on the verge of success and barely able to contain our utter excitement that it is all but in the bag.......only to find some minor problem that we must adjust before success crowns our endeavours!
In each instance when I read the post I cannot help but think the writer's confidence is misplaced and they are doomed to failure. That isn't me being mean and nasty, it's just that, as I'm sure is the case with others, I am equally certain that I have the solution and as far as I can see, it is definitely not the same as anyone else's. There are numerous deliberately vague descriptions and they all look good, but they all have one failing - they don't work. And anyway, surely we can't all be right can we?
This brings me to another point; I understand exactly how Bessler's wheel worked and why, and yet I sense in many reports that the writers don't actually know how Bessler's wheel worked and are still trying numerous variations all based on the simple OB wheel firmly rejected by Bessler. I think we can assume after more than three hundred years of failure that that is a proven unworkable configuration.
I'm also surprised that people still design with eight weights and levers, why? We know the two-way wheels emitted the sounds of about eight weights landing on the side towards which the wheel turned. But that proves nothing; there could be double the number of components in those wheels, compared to the earlier one-way versions and why build the more complicated two-way wheel when the simpler one-way version must be easier? Or they might have been padded to reduce some or all of the critical noises that might have given a clue, or had additional sound producers to confuse. In which case I think it's better to try to work out how many you think are needed and ignore the supposed vague clues offered by witnesses.
I see the question of, what might the one word have been that Bessler was afraid might reveal the secret, has resurfaced on the BW forum? To me it is obviously the number five. He never revealed it but my goodness, he does show it encoded in so many places you'd have be blind not to see it has great importance.
My own efforts to finish the wheel have been somewhat delayed by my little trip to Spain but now I'm back and eager to get this thing finished. I have no excuse for not finishing it and I am determined to do so as quickly as I can, subject to my crappy engineering equipment and skills! One problem I am in the middle of resolving concerns a lever which is not falling quickly enough, but the answer is clear to me and I have to make an adjustment to its task and reduce the load on it by adjusting its gearing. This will have negative consequences, I am sure but I will cross that bridge when and if I get there.
Rereading the above, I can see how similar my expressed confidence in knowing the solution looks just like every other person's belief in their imminent success. I'm seriously considering sharing what I know with someone who I feel that I can trust unreservedly, just to get another opinion on my theory. I have no doubt he will be convinced but then there is always that tiny area of doubt. Am I deluding myself? Probably!
JC
My own efforts to finish the wheel have been somewhat delayed by my little trip to Spain but now I'm back and eager to get this thing finished. I have no excuse for not finishing it and I am determined to do so as quickly as I can, subject to my crappy engineering equipment and skills! One problem I am in the middle of resolving concerns a lever which is not falling quickly enough, but the answer is clear to me and I have to make an adjustment to its task and reduce the load on it by adjusting its gearing. This will have negative consequences, I am sure but I will cross that bridge when and if I get there.
Rereading the above, I can see how similar my expressed confidence in knowing the solution looks just like every other person's belief in their imminent success. I'm seriously considering sharing what I know with someone who I feel that I can trust unreservedly, just to get another opinion on my theory. I have no doubt he will be convinced but then there is always that tiny area of doubt. Am I deluding myself? Probably!
JC
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