Hull speed

Folks with relevant expertise have been mostly quiet in this thread.

 

Pseudoscience is an art

 

The "Jargonator" will be back, once the patent is registered, I now understand why Einstein was a patents clerk, it is beyond ordinary mortals to make sense of some of the applications !

 

... meanwhile, can anybody give an example where engineering as advanced something useful by working to close the physical system?

I always figured that you started with a closed system and progessively opened it up as you gained practice.

The idea of improving boating by involving less water hasn't taken hold with me. I keep thinking he should try his hand at designing bridges if he doesn't like water. At any rate, I thought we would all be dispersing the effects over the most possible fluid if we could afford the material costs, but we are doing the best we can considering surface area costs so dearly.

Closed systems poison themselves. Closed models don't.

Closed systems are expensive to maintain. Closed models have no operating cost.

I've just always taken it as axiomatic that the more of the world that a system admits, the greater its potential.