I’ve spent a little time looking over some crank physics, particularly surrounding Maxwell’s equations. Particularly quaternions applied to maxwell’s equations. Note that maxwell’s equations are very good at describing charges and electromagnetic radiation in terms of quantities in volumes, though they say nothing about how electromagnetic radiation interacts with charged or uncharged masses. Special relativity was designed to “fix” a problem with maxwell’s equations, and lasers were invented after a derivation of maxwell’s equations implied that they should be possible.
After reviewing a fraction of the online literature on this topic, I can confidently say that there are a whole lot of things here that a few people know that most physicists do not know. And I can say with considerably less confidence that some of those things might actually be true.
If someone truly knows how to make an inexhaustible battery, or reliable working cold fusion, etc—I can confidently say that it hasn’t passed sufficient peer review to make a big splash. There may be such things that most people don’t know about. Almost certainly there are. But when they actually get tested enough to be believable, they’ll stop being secret—unless some government manages to classify them.
I’ve spent a little time looking over some crank physics, particularly surrounding Maxwell’s equations. Particularly quaternions applied to maxwell’s equations. Note that maxwell’s equations are very good at describing charges and electromagnetic radiation in terms of quantities in volumes, though they say nothing about how electromagnetic radiation interacts with charged or uncharged masses. Special relativity was designed to “fix” a problem with maxwell’s equations, and lasers were invented after a derivation of maxwell’s equations implied that they should be possible.
After reviewing a fraction of the online literature on this topic, I can confidently say that there are a whole lot of things here that a few people know that most physicists do not know. And I can say with considerably less confidence that some of those things might actually be true.
If someone truly knows how to make an inexhaustible battery, or reliable working cold fusion, etc—I can confidently say that it hasn’t passed sufficient peer review to make a big splash. There may be such things that most people don’t know about. Almost certainly there are. But when they actually get tested enough to be believable, they’ll stop being secret—unless some government manages to classify them.