You jokingly stress an important point there: might this molecule be related to the orientation sense some people seem to have more developed than others?
I keep reading comments from people who say that this thing is impossibile because it doesn't abide by the 1st law of thermodynamics, namely that energy needs to be conserved, but there are two main objection to that.
The first, and most obvious, one, is that this device may indeed not break the law of energy conservation, it might be that the energy is taken from some other places or entities which we are not aware of (yet). What if this thing is taking energy from the "space-time", so to speak, probably affecting the local fine structure constant?
The second objection is that the law of energy conservation only applies to isolated systems. And what if this device is taking its energy from another system? There are theories by which our universe is not just composed by 3 dimensions, what if this device is harnessing the energy contained in some other dimensions?
Thinking of it, both objections might simply be the two sides of the same medal.
This also poses the question of whether this device is really "green", in the sense that it doesn't pollute: if it really modifies the fine structure constant, then we might face some more dangerous forms of pollution, indeed.
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You jokingly stress an important point there: might this molecule be related to the orientation sense some people seem to have more developed than others?
Isaac Asimov built a novel about that concept back in 1972: The Gods Themselves .
I keep reading comments from people who say that this thing is impossibile because it doesn't abide by the 1st law of thermodynamics, namely that energy needs to be conserved, but there are two main objection to that.
The first, and most obvious, one, is that this device may indeed not break the law of energy conservation, it might be that the energy is taken from some other places or entities which we are not aware of (yet). What if this thing is taking energy from the "space-time", so to speak, probably affecting the local fine structure constant?
The second objection is that the law of energy conservation only applies to isolated systems. And what if this device is taking its energy from another system? There are theories by which our universe is not just composed by 3 dimensions, what if this device is harnessing the energy contained in some other dimensions?
Thinking of it, both objections might simply be the two sides of the same medal.
This also poses the question of whether this device is really "green", in the sense that it doesn't pollute: if it really modifies the fine structure constant, then we might face some more dangerous forms of pollution, indeed.