These guys are "us" (probably less me, more you).

These are the guys that understand the system; probably complain like hell to management about what's *really* going on; are always too busy to go to the Friday drinks or that all-hands meetings to celebrate one of the managers finishing his org chart or whatnot. These are the guys that always seem to miss their son's bedtime; or are too tired to eat when they come home.

And now they have the added benefit that in 5 years time they'll get a phone call from their doctor telling them that something turned up in an X-ray and he needs to talk to them about it.

Look if the laws of thermodynamics are to be broken then it would have been observable in many different experiments, over many different areas of physics for the last 50 years. The LHC, Fermilab and any university department would have straightforward experiments demonstrating that the laws are broken. If the laws can be broken by bits of metal and magnets you can bet your bottom dollar that experiments that deal with observations on the quantum level would have, maybe, just maybe, have raised a red flag (like CPT violation).

It's far easier (note this is not about theoretic frameworks, just experimental observations) to see a discrepancy in the laws of thermodynamics than it is to exploit them. It's like saying it's easier to create fusion reactors than it is to observe them in nature (like, say, a star). So saying a machine can bypass the laws of thermodynamics but AT THE SAME TIME none of those discrepancies are actually observed is just plain dumb.

You know who were the people that DIDN'T believe the earth was round?; that objects of different masses would fall at the same rate?; that the universe is expanding?: normal, boring people on the street. When physicists were formulating the laws of quantum mechanics the average Joe was being amazed by the new invention of street lighting. Stop using the persecution of Galileo by the average Joe and his church with the scepticism of people with backgrounds in physics to Steom. They have a right to question and be extremely suspicious about a macro-scale observation that counters ALL observations, of different scales (from the universe to the quantum) that contradict their claim.

Saying that an observable, well documented law is just another mistake in physics is plain dumb and makes you look like someone who wouldn't know what a scientific principle is if it ran up your butt and whistled Dixie.

Rant over.

Brilliant, you now have something in common with Steve Ballmer.