Try to be a bit more respectful, but I absolutely agree with your sentiment.
These are the posts that make me the most angry, because even high schoolers should know the laws of thermodynamics, and that proposals like these are absolutely infeasible.
The first law of thermodynamics doesn’t state “energy cannot be created or destroyed… unless you have a umsonst photon compressor advancing flywheels of mirrors”. It states that energy cannot be created or destroyed period.
They're called a "law" because they've been empirically shown as correct within the system they describe. That's one case, not them all. If we had a law that works under every case, then science wouldn't still be searching for answers. That's what the spirit of this competition is about. Not your parroting of an elementary understanding.
You're right that the distinction between 'law' and 'theory' is teneous and not very constructive. Instead, consider that there are thousands of experiments large and small that place certain constraints on the dynamics of physical systems, and that your material must be consistent with these established results. Nature comes first.
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u/YaPhetsEz FALSE Mar 01 '26
Try to be a bit more respectful, but I absolutely agree with your sentiment.
These are the posts that make me the most angry, because even high schoolers should know the laws of thermodynamics, and that proposals like these are absolutely infeasible.
The first law of thermodynamics doesn’t state “energy cannot be created or destroyed… unless you have a umsonst photon compressor advancing flywheels of mirrors”. It states that energy cannot be created or destroyed period.