About the Arcanum

I have a wide-ranging interest and background in various scientific and engineering fields, and dream up many strange things at the oddest times.  I have come to the realization that 99% of these are probably worthless, and I will never in any event be able to exploit or do anything with most of them anyway, so it costs me nothing to describe them here.  Somebody may find them interesting.

You will not find my secret plans for a 500mpg carburetor or free-energy perpetual-motion machine here.  That's because I don't have any, because I have more than a passing familiarity with the laws of thermodynamics.  By the same token, you will find your designs for such things also not here, and any comments about them deleted.  I do not tolerate tinfoil craziness well.

This is for things that... well, maybe, could exist.  Strange designs.  Imaginary envelope-pushing.  That sort of thing.  If there are flaws in my reasoning here, in any aspect, I encourage more skilled readers to point them out.  (Note that arguments of the form "well, that just can't be done", without some coherent reasoning of "why not" - preferably backed up with actual math, physics, or chemistry - will be about as poorly-received as tinfoil.)

If it is demonstrated that the designs are flawed, already explored by others, encumbered by patents, or suffer any other fatal flaws, I will nonetheless leave them standing as monuments to my folly.  That seems only fair.