Given that the search for the solution to Bessler's wheel has gone on for what seems like for ever with no real sign of any progress, and that all apparent alternative means of lifting the fallen weights has drawn a blank.....maybe its time to consider the impossible?
Despite the scornful comments which this post will doubtless engender, from those who (understandably) believe what they have been taught, that gravity cannot be used to drive Bessler's wheel, - and indeed see no convenient loophole which could accommodate my suggestion which follows - I remain convinced that Johann Bessler found a workaround that allowed him to do just that. I will try to explain why, so please read on.
Despite the scornful comments which this post will doubtless engender, from those who (understandably) believe what they have been taught, that gravity cannot be used to drive Bessler's wheel, - and indeed see no convenient loophole which could accommodate my suggestion which follows - I remain convinced that Johann Bessler found a workaround that allowed him to do just that. I will try to explain why, so please read on.
In the first place much has been made of the vagueness of his statements regarding his probable assumption that gravity drove his machine. The first, and final, impression that I got when reading Bessler's words was that he believed his wheel was driven by gravity. He implied that it was the cause of the weight's movement. But..... .subsequent analysis by those who search for such nuances of expression, believe that he was not suggesting that gravity alone, was the source of his wheel's energy, but some additional other unidentified agency.
Having considered the idea that gravity was the prime initiator of rotation, and also the cause of continuation of such motion, someone such as Bessler would have considered every conceivable method to achieve continuing action, including the use of gravity and/or some other agency to relift the fallen weights at the opportune moment, just as we who research this subject have continued to do so since before Bessler and after him. He states that it was following a dream that he attacked the problem with renewed vigour and enthusiasm, which culminated in success.
This dream seem to have confirmed something he was considering, and the end result was success. So what could have so inspired him to contimue his research with so much confidence?
This dream seem to have confirmed something he was considering, and the end result was success. So what could have so inspired him to contimue his research with so much confidence?
This other agency has been extensively sought, and suggestions made as to its nature, but no one has come up with a convincing story. The truth surely is that if a suitable energy souce had existed, it would have been found by now, and since it hasn't I must conclude that the other agency is the same as the one which caused the weights to fall, i.e. gravity, and that he devised a workaround to avoid the problem. I'm not sure if Bessler was aware just how impossible his claim to have invented a machine which was driven exclusively by gravity was regarded by the establishment, but I doubt he believed it, even if he had been told many times. In which case he just persevered with the search instictively searching for a workaround to access gravity for all his wheel's energy needs.
We know that he was aware of the wall of scepticism around him, but was he aware of exactly why he was not believed? Why gravity was utterly rejected as a potential sole power source? He made his discovery before he became notorious and it is likely that he succeeded because he did not know in those early days, why it was impossible!
We know that he was aware of the wall of scepticism around him, but was he aware of exactly why he was not believed? Why gravity was utterly rejected as a potential sole power source? He made his discovery before he became notorious and it is likely that he succeeded because he did not know in those early days, why it was impossible!
There were even fewer alternative forces available to Bessler than there are today, and to assume that he found some additional energy to lift the weights, due to changes in ambient temperature, magnetism, air pressure, steam, static electricity or some other force, begs the question why not take the simple route? Use Occam's razor - when you want to explain something, make no more assumptions than are necessary. Assuming that some additional source of energy was found, for which there seems to be no evidence, seems to me to be complicating an already puzzling problem.
To find the answer I think we have to dismiss the idea that there is absolutely no means of using gravity to be the sole source of energy for Bessler's wheel. I believe that there is a workaround that will work, and when it is found it will be very simple in concept, but not so easy in design. As some of you may know I believe I have found what seems to be that simple concept, which is why I continue to argue that gravity can be used to drive the wheel around for as long as the wheel and its components remain within the field of gravity, subject to certain design elements.
As long as we continue to deny the possibility that Bessler found a way of using gravity to drive his wheel, we shall fail to replicate his machine. We must bite the bullet and seek a workaround for Bessler's wheel.
JC
