I wish all of us the best of luck this year, in our continued quest for the solution to Besslers Wheel.
I joined the Besslerwheel forum on November 5, 2003, and I suspect that in the New Year of 2004 I predicted that the solution Bessler’s wheel would be found in that year. I also predicted success on this blog in every Happy New Year blog, probably since I started it. I was always confident and yet beneath my confident manner, I didn’t actually know what the solution was or even if there really was one, but as George Michael sang it “you just gotta have faith!”
So now, when I say that I’m confident that this year, we will learn that there is a solution and I really do know what it is, I won’t disappoint! I’ve written a complete description of how and why it is the solution, and I’m still working on finishing my Proof-of-Principle model, which I hope to show working before my 81st Birthday, 5th February. I am still adding some images to the description, because text is not enough. When the wheel is finished I’ll post some pictures working or not. This is the first time in my life, I know have the complete solution and I will share it as soon as possible.
I haven’t done much work on the PoP model, over Christmas, because of other activities. As well as Christmas and visiting our far-flung family, all gathered up north, I’ve taken my wife to have surgery on a skin cancer on her face, to a hospital about an hour away, five times since the beginning of December. The last appointment is next Monday and the surgeon has stated that she will have a 99% cure and full recovery.
If the solution is correct or some other person’s is better, or beats me to it, it will only be the second time in the whole of recorded history that the correct configuration has resulted in a working model. If it’s mine, it will actually be Bessler’s wheel, and it will then be the only one ever recorded. Yes the design is recorded in the four drawings in Das Triumphirende (DT) but you just have to work through all the clues to eventually find it. It’s taken me about 65 years since saw the first picture, although I didn’t start to really examine them until about 2010, 15 years ago.
Best wishes to you all,
JC
