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Joseph Westley Newman is an inventor. He is notorious as the creator of a so-called "free energy" machine, which, he claims, outputs more energy than it consumes. Such a perpetual motion machine is regarded as (provably) physically impossible within mainstream physics. An inventor is a person who creates new inventions, typically technical devices such as mechanical, electrical or software devices or methods. ...
Various meanings of the term free energy include: In thermodynamics the term free energy denotes the total amount of energy in a system which can be converted into work. ...
This article or section should include material from Parallel Path See also Perpetuum mobile as a musical term Perpetual motion machines (the Latin term perpetuum mobile is not uncommon) are a class of hypothetical machines which would produce useful energy in a way science cannot explain (yet). ...
A Superconductor demonstrating the Meissner Effect. ...
Alleged free-energy machine
Newman's device consists of a battery pack (one or more of the batteries may be specially conditioned and the "conditioning" may travel from battery to battery), a commutator which was mechanically connected to a rotating permanent magnet, and a coil of wire. Conventional continuous current flows from the battery. ...
The battery pack consists of 116 nine-volt batteries arranged in five sets of twenty batteries and one set of sixteen batteries. The batteries in each set are connected in series and external wiring is used to connect these various sets in series.
The commutator reverses the polarity of the battery connection twice during each rotation of the magnet. In addition, twenty-four times during each rotation it connected the battery to and disconnected it from the coil of wire and the load.
Claims about free energy Newman claims that, after starting his machine using the power of the batteries, it is possible to measure a power output that is larger than the input. While he prefers not to call the machine a perpetual motion device, the "free-energy machine" is clearly one. This article or section should include material from Parallel Path See also Perpetuum mobile as a musical term Perpetual motion machines (the Latin term perpetuum mobile is not uncommon) are a class of hypothetical machines which would produce useful energy in a way science cannot explain (yet). ...
According to the well-known skeptic and debunker James Randi, who visited Newman to investigate his claims, the inventor made up excuses and did not want to concede the possibility of connecting the power output back to the input (which would produce a positive feedback loop and avoid further need for an external energy source, i. e. the batteries). James Randi (born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge, August 7, 1928 in Toronto, Canada), more often known as The Amazing Randi, is a stage magician, a skeptic, best known as a debunker of pseudoscience. ...
Positive feedback is a type of feedback. ...
Newman also pointed out that the principles underlying the machine had to do with magnetic vortices, an idea conceived (and then rejected) by the 19th century physicist James Clerk Maxwell, and that those vortices were also responsible for such things as earthquakes and ESP. Randi concluded that Newman was simply a crackpot. In physics, magnetism is one of the phenomena by which materials exert an attractive or repulsive force on other materials. ...
James Clerk Maxwell (13 June 1831 – 5 November 1879) was a Scottish mathematical physicist, born in Edinburgh. ...
Global earthquake epicenters, 1963–1998 An earthquake is a sudden and sometimes catastrophic movement of a part of the Earths surface. ...
ESP can mean: In the paranormal: Extra-sensory perception Effective Sensory Projection In music: E.S.P. (album), an album by Miles Davis Ectopic Shapeshifting Penance-propulsion, on The Mars Voltas De-Loused in the Comatorium The Electric Soft Parade, a British band ESP-Disk, a 1960s free jazz...
Crank (or kook, crackpot, or quack) is a pejorative term for a person who writes or speaks in an authoritative fashion about a particular subject, often in science, but is alleged to have false or even ludicrous beliefs. ...
Flawed Abstraction All abstractions are leaky.[1] Joseph Newman uses a particularly leaky gyroscope abstraction for certain particle behaviors. He seems oblivious to this situation.
Personal Controversy According to the Mississippi Press, Newman said he was ordered by God to marry both his 30-year-old secretary and her 8-year-old daughter. Newman did so and released a twelve page press release about the marriage. At the time Newman was already married to a third woman. Authorities promptly removed the eight-year-old from Newman's home. Newman angrily declared, "I wouldn't be a bit surprised if this does not result that God will place misery upon the state of Mississippi.... I can see the handwriting on the wall and the people of Mississippi had better wake up." In 1989, Newman also claimed to have seen two groups of seven V-shaped UFOs flying in succession over his lake home in Lucedale, MS. He reported that he "called" the UFOs by sending out seven "blips" from a flashlight into the sky, waiting for 30 seconds, and then sending out another 7 "blips." He claimed that the UFOs didn't make a sound as they passed overhead.
See also Inventors of alleged perpetual motion machines, free energy machines, and similar devices include: John Bedini has been creating authentic overunity machines for 35 years and has demonstrated them publicly. ...
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