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Indian scholar challenges Newton's law

June 04, 2003 12:53 IST


An Indian technologist in Australia has challenged Newton's First Law of
Motion and called for a revision of the classical theory in the light of
modern technology.

According to Newton's First Law of Motion an object at rest tends to stay at
rest and an object in motion tends to stay in motion, unless acted upon by
an external force.

Arindam Banerjee, an alumnus of the Indian Institute of
Technology-Kharagpur, argued in his recent book, To The Stars!, that
contrary to Newton's theory an object can actually be moved without
application of any external force.

"Central to my theory is the proposal that our understanding of Newton's
First Law of Motion should be revised," the 47-year-old research
technologist, who works for Telstra in Melbourne, told PTI.

Based on his unconventional theory, Banerjee has described in a technical
paper, a design for a 'perpetual motion machine,' which can generate energy
without burning any kind of fossil fuel or using any radioactive process.

Called the Internal Force Engine, Banerjee claims it would never run out of
power because it is 'self charging' without the need for any external source
of energy.

"It is a machine driven by energy internal to the body and can achieve
unlimited kinetic energy within a short span of time, using much less energy
obtained from external sources like a battery," he said.

The balance energy generated thus is free and could be produced indefinitely
if a feedback loop is created in the system, Banerjee contended.

The technologist has created an electro-magnetically propelled Internal
Force Moved Body, which demonstrates that objects can be made to move from
rest without friction, without expelling mass at high speed (as in rockets)
or without any externally applied force, thus violating Newton's First Law
of Motion.

Through a series of complex cycles involving a hydraulic system that
channelises oppositely directed kinetic energies, Banerjee's IFMB produces
ever increasing velocity with each cycle with 'no upper limit' to the
velocity that it can reach.

Though his theory is based on the assumption that our present understanding
of the Law of Conservation of Energy (which says: Energy can neither be
created nor destroyed) is flawed, Banerjee clarified that certain new
concepts arising out of his own postulations would have to get a firm
footing first.

"For instance, the concept of 'internal force,' 'internal force moved body'
and 'velocity addition' as proposed in the new theory would need innovations
in the fields of electromagnetic and hydraulic systems," he said.

Successful implementation of the concept, fortified with designs and
mathematical derivations, could mean a gradual elimination of the
conventional sources of energy (fossil fuels) ensuring a pollution-free
environment, the technology expert said.

The theory could also be used to describe the principles for the design of
interstellar spacecrafts using the perpetual motion machine, Banerjee
pointed out.

"Designing an engine that delivers more power than it takes to run has been
a dream for all engineers. This concept has the potential to create a
portable, cheap and no-noise machine to propel even huge systems," he said
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