The description is not detailed enough to determine whether any conservation law is violated.
When you drop a body near the Earth, it begins a continuously accelerated motion. If you look just at the body, it would seem that it gains energy from nowhere. Only when you consider the complete Earth-body system you see that in fact the energy is conserved.
The same could happen for their device. Supposing that it really creates a force, it may happen that it would not create any force if it would be located in the outer space at a great distance from any planet or star, but it would create a force only in the proximity of other bodies, with a corresponding potential energy depending on its location.
There have been in the past some attempts to create a theory that connects electromagnetism with gravity and inertia, where the gravitational attraction is a consequence of the fact that the positive charges of the nuclei and the negative charges of the electrons are slightly separated in space, which in a modified theory of electromagnetism could create a residual force of attraction that would explain the gravitational attraction.
If such a connection between gravitation, inertia and electromagnetism would really exist, there would be chances for such a device to work.
Nevertheless, for now it is not possible to decide whether their experiments may be valid, because there are not enough details about them.
What is described in the patent is not good enough. The complete experimental setup would be needed, including a detailed description of the surrounding laboratory, because such small effects could be caused by longer-range interactions with some close enough equipment that is not supposed to be a part of the experiment.
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The description is not detailed enough to determine whether any conservation law is violated.
When you drop a body near the Earth, it begins a continuously accelerated motion. If you look just at the body, it would seem that it gains energy from nowhere. Only when you consider the complete Earth-body system you see that in fact the energy is conserved.
The same could happen for their device. Supposing that it really creates a force, it may happen that it would not create any force if it would be located in the outer space at a great distance from any planet or star, but it would create a force only in the proximity of other bodies, with a corresponding potential energy depending on its location.
There have been in the past some attempts to create a theory that connects electromagnetism with gravity and inertia, where the gravitational attraction is a consequence of the fact that the positive charges of the nuclei and the negative charges of the electrons are slightly separated in space, which in a modified theory of electromagnetism could create a residual force of attraction that would explain the gravitational attraction.
If such a connection between gravitation, inertia and electromagnetism would really exist, there would be chances for such a device to work.
Nevertheless, for now it is not possible to decide whether their experiments may be valid, because there are not enough details about them.
What is described in the patent is not good enough. The complete experimental setup would be needed, including a detailed description of the surrounding laboratory, because such small effects could be caused by longer-range interactions with some close enough equipment that is not supposed to be a part of the experiment.