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I’m going to manipulate like the mathematicians do.
Your father, equals one...
...joins your mother, equals one
...on a glorious day
And nine months later you are born.
So how many do we have now?
3 !
Congratulations ! you’re Alive!
So mathematicians erase our lives...
(artist - scientist - philosopher)
Did you know ‘enthusiasm’ means
‘Inspiration by the divine or by the presence of god.’
En’thou’siasmos.
Nice isn't it?
Our whole language is filled with religious terms which we don’t grasp...
...we don’t always understand anymore.
Belief in god is different than belief in science.
As a scientist you can’t belief. You’re bound to FACTS.
So dogma’s...
...like the law on ‘Conservation of energy’...
...are superstitions in which the scientists belief.
This becomes a dangerous teaching.
Because it's just a superstition.
So what they (scientists) say is really this:
‘I BELIEF in the Conservation of energy.’
‘I BELIEF that 1 + 1 = 2.’ Etc.
But they don’t know what energy is...
...they don’t know what ONE is. And they...
...uh...
...do not even know that E = MC 2 is also wrong.
University - Bruxelles
Energy is:
‘The opportunity to perform an amount of work.’
Yes, but then you focus on ‘opportunity’...
...so you’ll have to define that as well.
You just created another problem...
University - Antwerp
I'd say, energy is released.
It is a primal force...
which is released from different materials...
that which create an impulse...
for machines and such...
'It creates an impulse'?
But if you say 'primal force'...
Then you relay the problem to 'force'...
and ‘force’ is synonymous to ‘energy’.
So you’ll have to explain 'primal force' to me.
ah well then... you’re making this pretty challenging for me !
- tough uh? ...but I really have to go now because...
The best of luck to you!
Thank you.
(not interested)
What did you say?
Energy is endless, but sometimes a bit too short.
Yes, well I don’t know about that...
I think that energy...
Well it’s all quite global...
and a little relative, I think.
But when you’re using words like ‘global’ and ‘relative’
The world suddenly becomes a very blurry reality...
Indeed.
'How many combustion engines on this earth do we need...
...so we would suffocate in our own pollution'?
I made this as a symbol to represent that.
Another thought: ‘How big would the exhaust pipe be...'
'...if we would combine all the exhaust pipes...'
'...from all the combustion engines that we have...'
'...to make one big crater?'
Everybody would surely protest against that !
But now everybody is doing it by themselves...
...and is ultimately responsible for all the pollution on earth.
What do you do with the rainwater?
(together) Drain it !
Why don’t you use it to flush the toilets i.e.?
You could do that yes...
And what about the energy supply?
Excuse me. Can I ask you a question?
I really should go. I'm in a hurry.
You have to go? No time?
No, I really should get going.
...second floor.
Hey!
How are you?
You made a mistake in your report.
he he... Did not see that.
You have to account for the...
(laughs)
'Energy' is perfectly defined by scientists...
only the philosophical background is unclear.
So to you the perfect definition is:
‘The opportunity to...’
No then you relay the problem to ‘opportunity’... !
That’s not a perfect definition. I’m sorry.
Are you an engineer?
No, scientist.
Scientist? Well then...
Isn’t it fundamental to our thinking that we know what energy really is?
What do you wish to accomplish with these questions?
Our civilization, the whole world is build upon energy and supplying it.
So if you don’t even know what these basic concepts mean...
...then your whole world will end in chaos...
But why do you ask students in specific these questions?
Well, they are the world’s future intellectuals.
At least, that’s the idea.
I hope that there will be some bright thinkers amongst them.
Look...
...we take some coffee.
And in that coffee...
...we very gently place or lower...
...a sugar cube into the coffee.
What you’ll see is that the coffee will rise up into the sugar.
So coffee molecules are being transported UPWARDS!
When we look at the molecules as ‘trucks’...
...they will transport tiny amounts of coffee upwards into the sugar.
That to me is in direct conflict...
...with the first and second law on 'Conservation of energy'.
It is this theory which leads me...
...at least in my opinion to a real working...
...perpetual energy machine.
But that of course is the debate!
Yes, and who might you be?
Well I’m that philosopher who follows in Socrates footsteps.
I’m searching for...
...or at least I was searching for a perpetual machine.
Ah, I see...
It’s an artwork which is forbidden by thermal-dynamics.
And why is it forbidden?
Because it against the law on 'Conservation of energy'.
And we don’t even know what energy is.
Seems we are walking in circles.
Yes, that's true...
But nobody has the right answer probably.
Well, I know I’m right because...
You're...
You are only right when you’ve really build that machine, I guess.
I’m hoping to have an exhibition in the near future...
...at the psychiatric hospital in Ghent...
...in their Dr.Guislain Museum.
...together with a few other fools and nutcases...
The exhibition is called:
‘Wise Fools and Foolish Wise men’
A very suitable title !
Hey Jan.
Very nicely done. It all looks very good.
- Like it? What a job.
One in the front and one...
(talking in French to a journalist)
'Thermodynamics does not exist' !
'It is pure fiction'.
I may have the patience of a saint.
But it’s about time that we change peoples way of thinking...
Breaking down boundries...
When people say:
‘That man is crazy’!
That’s probably what they said about Galileo and others too.
We’ll have to do something about that.
Breaching that psycological barrier.
People who are crazy, just might not be.
So maybe it’s the world that has gone a bit mad?