Mills has developed a better purely classical atomic model where the electrons are concentric spinning fluid spheres with force balance equivalent to 20k atmospheres pressure. The spinning electrons don't radiate because there is no net charge movement over time. See https://brilliantlightpower.com/theory/
Ah, the forever cry of the crackpots. That's particularly rich complaint given it's a publicly editable resource. The only reason it could be in poor shape and "out of date" is because you yourself left it that way.
If that was a truly workable theory it would have verifiable predictions and compatibility with all prior observation and it would be eagerly explored. Scientists as a whole like to find anomalies and discrepancies; it is what keeps them in business. There is no "conspiracy".
Edits are removed unless they are published in well known journals which is fair enough for scientific results, but you cannot even update the page to state Mills latest engineering improvements or update factual information about the company.
If they have actual engineering improvements this sentence in the Wikipedia article could be easily disproved.
> BLP has announced several times that it was about to deliver commercial products based on Mill's theories but has never delivered any working product.
The main problem is there is so much power the device melts. They have now started using molten gallium electrodes (as of 2016), and now a quartz crystal housing that lets the UV light out and doesn't melt. They are offering hydrinos in a bottle to qualified labs. Stuff goes through a gas chromatograph faster than hydrogen.
The Connections series by James Burke from around the same time posited that politics is irrelevant and progress is mostly due to science. The consumer society of today is much better than when Crap Towns was written although improvement is not uniform. But even the least improved towns are better now than they were due to all the regional, national, and international improvements in services.
Unfortunately I’m not sure this is true. My home town is one of the Crap Towns and in the last 25 years more or less the entire high street economy has collapsed and nothing has replaced it. It increasingly exists as a cheap undesirable housing spot with a 30 min commute to the next city.
That you need to go to the center is not necessarily an issue, but it looks like there are cycles in the labyrinth, and that can ruins the "just follow the left/right wall" trick. I do not see for sure if there is any place where you may end up stuck in a loop though?
The article oddly argues the opposite, that it is difficult to solve because "each junction or fork never allows you to find an alternative route, but always leads to a dead end".
The article says that it is "intricate and difficult", and "has only one path leading to the center, and each junction or fork never allows you to find an alternative route, but always leads to a dead end". Unless I'm mistaken, that would make it easier, not more difficult, by guaranteeing that a hand-on-wall strategy would succeed. To defeat the strategy, at least one uninterrupted path must encircle the center of the labyrinth.
I emigrated from the UK to USA in 1980 and my first code review at Bell Labs I spent about 30 mins explaining my code and then asked if there were any final questions and someone hesitantly asked, "What is this variable 'zed' you keep talking about?"
I used to work for a networking start-up and when we were in the US trying - without success - to sell the company we practised over and over saying "roWter" for "router" (English pronunciation like "rooter").
As a Canadian I read that as "rOATer" for a moment, because the word row rhyming with ow is quite uncommon here -- the row I know is in a boating or a data context.
Having posted the above a few days ago, last night I (originally from the UK) was in the car with my wife (US born and bred) following and reciting map directions on my phone like "0.8 miles left on San Antonio" which I say as UK standard "nought point eight miles left on San Antonio." After a while she asks "what is nought?" Here we just say "point 8 miles" or "zero point eight miles." We've only been married 42 years and are still learning each other's language:-)
Some time ago a few people from the UK kept calling/referring to someone as a nonce. It took me awhile to say something, but I finally asked because I simply couldn't understand or wrap my head around why they kept referring to this person as a single use random number (mostly for authentication in my case). It was so confusing.
Central planning targets what is good, but inefficiently. Private enterprise targets what is profitable very efficiently. There's a combination of the two that is a happy medium.
Why not just ban FALSE or MISLEADING advertising like Europe does?
Apparently there is no difficulty in determining what is false there although I can see it might be a problem in the US currently.
The elliptical road design is interesting as there is no need for T-junctions or traffic lights. Two large ellipses running in opposite directions connected by semi-circular off/on ramps so you only need to merge and not stop.
This illustration is a classic in the style of Tufte's Envisioning Information although I don't remember seeing it in his books. But given the current climate of DOGE cuts and Musk's demand for email reports of what each gov employee did last week it occurs that a public online org chart of the entire non-classified Federal Government with weekly entries made by all employees would be a huge win and would justify the level of spending.
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