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> Despite every physicist we have spoken to over the better part of two years asserting that the "Pais Effect" has no scientific basis in reality and the patent
by arkitaip 6y ago
> Despite every physicist we have spoken to over the better part of two years asserting that the "Pais Effect" has no scientific basis in reality and the patents related to it were filled with pseudo-scientific jargon, NAWCAD confirmed they were interested enough in the patents to spend more than a half-million dollars over three years developing experiments and equipment to test Pais' theories.
That's such a low sum when it comes to military waste that leadership would have to be crazy not to spend it! /s
- wil421 6y ago> The cost was $508,000 over the course of three years. Around ninety percent of the total - $462,000 - was for salaries, while the rest was used for equipment, test preparation, testing and assessment. Well we know why it was a success for the scientist.
- saberdancer 6y agoThis probably has no net effect on the budget, people on the project were already on salary. Only loss is that Navy could have used these people on something more productive, but then again, I doubt Navy cares about productivity too much.
- tgflynn 6y agoIt's a small amount of money for any physics experiment and absolutely tiny by the standards of government expenditure. I don't have a problem with them having done the experiment, I have a problem with the fact that they prematurely filed a patent and appear to have misrepresented the state of their research to get it approved over the objections of the patent examiners.