How can we be sure that Mr. L didn’t successfully design a clever system of compensators, and correctly validate that design using a sound spreadsheet?
Before reading further, here is my tentative answer.
The law of conservation of momentum that this machine would violate can be proved from Newton’s laws of motion.
If Mr L. calculations are based entirely on Newton’s laws, then what he has found is a contradiction in mathematics.
If they are based on different, incompatible laws of motion, then why should we trust those new laws?
Before reading further, here is my tentative answer.
The law of conservation of momentum that this machine would violate can be proved from Newton’s laws of motion.
If Mr L. calculations are based entirely on Newton’s laws, then what he has found is a contradiction in mathematics.
If they are based on different, incompatible laws of motion, then why should we trust those new laws?