Tom,
Thanks for this and all your other posts. As someone who is not particularly knowledgeable in this field, I really appreciate the information and explanation you provide. Plenty of folks are willing to say "it can't be done" -- I much prefer that statement being supported with the math. :-)
Ultimately, though, the proposition you are demonstrating is this: "What DW claims is impossible based on what is currently known." There is a simpler proof of this proposition, which does not require any math at all:
Theorem: What is claimed for the EESU is impossible based on current understanding.
Proof: I can't buy one anywhere.
I love the explanations you are providing, but the conclusion is something that was already quite evident. If DW has anything even close to what he is claiming, it goes without saying he's discovered something new.
I ask the following question because I would find your thoughts on it interesting. Suppose that you were presented with a working EESU, and you performed whatever tests you like on it and determined that it does indeed live up to claimed specs. (I know you are quite sure this would never happen, but hypothetically considering the impossible is sometimes worthwhile, or at least fun.) What would be your best guess as to how to explain it?
In posing this thought experiment, I stipulate that the forests are well-enough trodden that if Bigfoot exists someone would probably have stumbled over him by now, and for this and many other reasons the rational scientific position is that there is no Bigfoot. But surely there are some hollows and caves where a sasquatch or two might be holed up.
In the highly unlikely event that Bigfoot exists, where could he possibly be hiding?
