Recent evidence suggests that "Mylow" (Jose Enrique [Ricky] Concepcion) of Chicago was fibbing from the beginning when he claimed that he had successfully replicated Howard Johnson's all-magnet motor; and that he has never actually produced a single working unit.
 Mylow films his latest all-magnet-motor attempt on around May 25, 2009. |
After it was discovered that a man who we've been calling "Mylow" had employed trickery in some of his later videos showing various alleged all-magnet motors, one out of very four people (ref.) who've been watching this saga held out with some hope that Mylow was being honest with us in saying that he was forced to fake these latter videos because the BlackOps had told him any subsequent videos he posted must have some kind of discoverable fakery, or his and his wife's lives could be in jeopardy. (Ref.)
He had told me that on April 2nd and 3rd, an NSA agent had accompanied his attorney and threatened him if he did not stop posting videos. Then, supposedly some other BlackOp type agents began showing up and threatening him later on as well.
Because a lot of us don't have a hard time believing that such a thing could happen, we went along with this explanation, giving him the benefit of the doubt. We would so much like to see a revolutionary technology emerge that could make polluting energy sources obsolete as well as free us from our dependence on a centrist distribution system. Mylow seemed to have the profile of humanitarianism, not being in this for the money, wanting to share his discoveries openly with the world. Was his fakery his way of continuing the disclosure while keeping the BlackOps at bay?
This hope was given a boost the other day when he sent me some high-resolution videos from his "pre-MIB" episodes, and what people had thought might be the same fish line in the earlier low-resolution YouTube videos was shown to be just a scratch on the dresser top where the motor was setting.
However, other evidence that has unfolded in recent days in analyzing Mylow's earlier videos dismisses every one of them as also employing fakery.
Deceleration During Full View
LightRider's analysis of the rotation speeds shows that the only time the devices show acceleration is when not all the motor is shown, allowing for some kind of external assist to take place (e.g. a quiet, battery-powered Dremel tool). When the entire motor is in view, invariably the motor is decelerating as you would expect if there were no magic taking place in the magnets.
The most blatant demonstration of this is in the March 22 video. The motor accelerates except when it is in full view, at which time it very clearly slows down.
Here's the data LightRider collected from Mylow's very first video showing alleged magnet-induced rotation posted on March 17, which is when this whole saga began, as it appeared that he had achieved a working magnet motor. The purple region in the graphic corresponds to when the full motor is in view, during which time the motor very clearly is decelerating.
In my earlier report about the discovery of the hidden fish line in the later videos, I had noted that Mylow's second video from March 17 was questionable to me. I said: "He pans around the room then back to the motor. The analysis done by LightRider of the rotation speed of the motor during that video shows a deceleration of the motor during the two times that it was shown turning -- not acceleration or equilibrium steady-state. But what is more telling is that between the first showing of it spinning and the second showing, while he is showing the bed, the speed jumps up. It is very easy to suppose that he could have given the motor a little cheater push with his other hand while he was filming the bed."
When I asked Mylow about this, he said that he remembers accidentally bumping it with his hip. However, the room is not constricted. He had plenty of room to move around. Given the other similar results, it is clear that he intentionally gave this one a little assist as well.
Another Decelerating Video
Before I saw LightRider's more recent rotation speed analysis reports this morning, posted above, my confidence began to deteriorate as I was communicating with Mylow last night.
I was asking him for any other videos he might send me from the "pre-MIB" time. In particular, I was hoping he would send me the video he said he had shot of the motor running on a glass table on April 2, before his attorney and the NSA guy allegedly showed up. He said he could not send that one (out of fear). However, there is another one, not on the glass table, from the same time, that he did send me, which we've never seen before. In this one, he is using the new stator magnet I had sent to him -- the HS811N from AllMagnetics.com, as I reported on April 1.
He told me that this one spun really fast and that it lasted for a couple of days.
However, you'll see in that video that the rotor decelerates very rapidly, consistent with a regular run-down, with no magnet assist.
That was a major red flag to me that Mylow was a bold face liar, even now. When I asked him about this, he said, "Well, I tried."
This leaves those of us who have hoped that somehow Mylow really does have something real, with a grand total of zero versions that are something we can cling to.
Before composing this story, I phoned Mylow, requesting that he send any videos that show the motor running with an unobstructed view, showing acceleration followed by maintenance of speed. "Otherwise," I told him, "we will be forced to conclude that you have been lying from the very beginning and that you never had any motors that worked by magnet power alone. Do you want to go down in history as the person who ran one of the biggest open source energy hoaxes ever?
He didn't really have anything to say to that, other than something to the effect of "I guess that is what you'll have to do".
Inside Mylow's Head
I'm not a psychologist, but I can't help but wonder what has been going through Mylow's head.
The profile of "fraud" doesn't fit, because he's never asked for money, nor received any. The one-third portion of proceeds I've pulled in from plans sales has gone toward sending him magnets and such. He was actually resistant whenever the topic of money and business came up.
It seems he is driven more by a desire to be what we thought he was -- an altruistic inventor with a game-changing technology that upends magnetic science as we've known it. He's been pursuing this kind of stuff for years, as can be seen by sporadic YouTube videos found from 2-3 years ago, as well as the drawings he allegedly came up with while in high school some 30 years ago.
Could it be that he wanted success so badly that his lying nature kicked in to fake success as a stopgap for the success he thought was surely imminent? And since he thought success was surely to come, he was able to proceed with such sincerity, feeling as though he had actually achieved success, and taking on the persona of one who had figured out some of the key secrets of magnetism.
I will admit that my yearning for such a technology to be real no doubt helped fuel this Mylow saga.
Just as I jumped the gun in reporting on this technology with the strong bias that it could very well be the real deal, so did Mylow jump the gun in posting videos of working devices that weren't actually working.
I know that when I've experimented with various things in the past, I've noticed effects which at first appeared to show evidence of free energy being extracted from the wheelwork of nature, and I got really excited. But then upon further analysis and testing, I realized where I had made mistakes in my assumptions and realized I hadn't really accomplished what I thought at first that I had.
I'm guessing that Mylow was in a mode similar to that when he first began posting his alleged working motors. Maybe the little nudges he gave it were like "training wheels" in his mind -- a temporary help that will not be needed once the design is perfected. He was in denial, and in his mind he wasn't even fibbing, but was just "coaxing."
Still At It
Part of my reason for saying that comes from watching the most recent set of eight new videos that he has sent me showing his progress on his new set-up using a glass rotor disc and clear PVC stator support, with the rotor bar magnets positioned upright, north facing outward.
When he changes a little thing in the stator assembly and the rotor responds, he acts like he just achieved eureka, when in fact he just achieved normal magnets reacting to other magnets -- nothing unusual at all. In one such scene, he actually takes more than a minute to pan the camera back to "prove" that the movement seen was not something he faked with his other hand.
One of the scenes that really cracked me up was when the rotor was spinning with some hodge-podge stator arrangement that resembled a magnet orgy. The rotor was slowing down, as would be expected, but he was talking as if the rotor motion was actually due to some magnetic effect. He moved his hands around the rotor to show that "no strings" were attached. He showed behind the dresser, and to the side, etc... -- all to prove that he wasn't faking anything -- when in fact, there was nothing to fake. Nothing unusual was going on. Yet to hear his tone of voice, you would think he'd won the lottery or something.
I hate to say this, as Mylow has been my friend through this saga, but I think that a less than high IQ is also in play here. He really does have a "mind of a child" -- something he's proud of as it fits into the prophecy Howard Johnson made about someone who would come along and carry forward his work. It reminds me of my 9-year-old boy who came home excited the other day saying that we could get all kinds of stuff for free -- "even a house" -- using a coupon card he got from school. He obviously didn't know what he was talking about and had misunderstood something he was told.
What this Means for Me Personally
I realize that this admission likewise reflects negatively on me, as I'm supposed to be one who is exercising due diligence in what we put forth as worth while in our directory and news service. I realize that those who have recently defected from the New Energy Congress over this Mylow saga have been justified in doing so. I was wrong to excoriate OverUnity.com for being so brutal on Mylow. A lot of them sniffed this one correctly a long time ago, though they could have been more polite in how they voice it. My optimism and yearning for something real in this area blinded me to some of the more obvious red flags that popped up along the way. I was consumed by this saga for nearly two months, doing little else besides tracking and facilitating the promulgation of this open source project.
I guess my gullibility is part of my personality profile that allows me to play in the fringes of science where new things are apt to appear. Most people can't stand the stigma of hanging out with those who think that the next breakthrough is more likely to come from some simple garage tinkerer who doesn't know the laws of physics he's breaking, than from the halls of the ivy league institutions of science, where people don't dare defy the dogmas that have been established.
Being wrong, is part of eventually being right. And if this stigma is part of the profile, then I guess I'm willing to wear it, painful as it is.
No Longer Selling Plans
Given this latest information, I can no longer hold out hope that Mylow's system has sufficient potential to merit support. Hence, I will no longer be selling the plans for any of the versions he's come up with thus far. Interested parties can download them for free if they want.
While Mylow is a nice enough and sincere enough person, I no longer consider his designs to be worth pursuit, and I don't trust his enthusiasm to be worth chasing. If you want to contact him, you can do so directly. He needs to be known in the real world for what he has done here.
Mylow, if you do actually end up getting something to work, I'd love to come see it. That would make a much better next chapter to this saga than where things stand at present.
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Jose E. Concepcion (Mylow)
5058 W Drummond Pl, Apt 4
Chicago, IL 60639-1602
cell: 773-829-1191
email: magma1963@yahoo.com
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It's unbelievable that you gave out his name and his address. I view that as you getting back at him, and making an obvious attempt to disguise it in the form of a new online article.
I don't condone that behavior at all and I pray that no harm comes to Jose because of your action, Sterling.
The real fall guy is you, and you can't squirm out of it with a confessional article.
Three cheers Sterling. Thank you for your honest and objective look at this unfortunate situation. By admitting the truth of the situation, we can all move on and learn from this and most of us can refresh our confidence in you. You're 90% there but I suggest you stop rationalizing/explaining Mylow's behavior sympathetically. He's a pathological liar and can't help himself. Don't waste another thought on him as he will only continue to distract everyone and will never come up with anything real.
Sterling, I admire you for your honesty, willingness to take a risk, being prepared to say "I was wrong" in public, and willingness to keep looking.
You are a good man.
Please take down his address before some idiot goes and murders the poor man. He deserves to learn from his actions, but not like that.
Sterling, most of us at one time or another, have been fooled. Some have become so hardened from their experience, they no longer believe anything, even when they see it (flat world mentality).
Your self flogging I'm confident has made you stronger and smarter when it comes to unsubstantiated claims. As for those "I told you so's", if they're any kind of friend to you and PESN, they'll be back.
After all, this COULD have gone the way we thought it was going!
Sterling, we will achieve over unity very soon no doubt about it!
Your efforts in this community are not forgotten by the people trying to reach the "GOAL".
However, what you have done to expose him is simply foolish.
How would you feel if someone who had spent thousands of dollars, dedicated hours upon hours of their time and even ruined relationships for the greater good trying to replicate this device, used the details you just posted and did something to this guy?
Remove the guys details and lets get onto the next venture!
McOnDaMic
Sertling,
what is the reason for you to disclose the details? The self-critisism is quite good, but all other issues are no longer important - especially giving the details is beyond a mature approach and off topic.
Since you now agree that all Mylow's devices were faked, you must therefore acknowledge that my replication of his device was EXACT in all significant respects. Since I published my videos showing the drive system BEFORE the vidoe analyses of Mylow's videos, I claim priority and I claim the Mylow Prize which you offered for the first replications of Mylow's motor.
I have confirmation from several independent scientists whose names you would instantly know and approve, that my replication is much much more than the 50 percent "exact" replication that you specified in the prize requirements, and I have invited you, Sterling, to personally come and see it if you wish, to confirm that it is in all important respects identical to Mylow's best "working" system.
If you decline to award me the prize which is rightfully mine by all civilized standards of morality, it will be just one more blot upon your rapidly tarnishing reputation.
If I had a project I was ready to disclose, I would now never consider you or any of the enterprises you are connected with - it would be detrimental to my own credibility to be associated with you.
You are failing to learn the real lesson here. It was OBVIOUS it was a fraud because IT CAN'T BE DONE. What you call the "dogma" of mainstream academia is actually knowledge based on hundreds of years of observation and experiment. You are like the ignorant ancient horsemen, looking for the magic words that will make horses fly. When told by the wise men that horses can't fly, you remain convinced that, since you don't understand how gravity works, the right arrangement of syllables is sure to get one off the ground. Instead of learning after hundreds of faked flights, you cling to stories of distant, unseen successes, and keep mumbling into manes.
I don't get it, everyone on OU wants to kill the foolish messenger (Sorry Sterling for being a fool). What everyone has forgotten is that Jose is the guilty party. He actively lied to the community and he should be forced to deal with the problems he created, not Sterling. Sterling knows he made a HUGE mistake, but I'd like to think he was just fooled like everyone else because of his excitement. Jose deserves everything he gets. For once a liar is going to have to face the people he lied to.
Why should Sterling be a shell of protection for Jose? He shouldn't. His reputation and site will undoubtedly suffer from his role, and Jose should suffer for his. He started it and know he should deal with the angry mod he created.
I agree with some of the comments made here in that his personal information should not have been given out, this results in him being open to attack both verbally and physically. We all know he is a fraud but in his mind he is believes that he is doing good....let him continue, he may surprise us all in the end.
This Mylow episode was a learning experience in many ways. On the bright side, I learned about Howard Johnson's inventions from the 70's/80's. Moreover, one of Sterling's diary entries included a video of a working prototype of Howard Johnson's train track invention, demoed by John Bendini (not sure if it was him). Anyway, unless that demo was a hoax, we have a video of the train car magnet being propelled down the track of magnets. Am I the only one excitied by this video. That is was we should be replicating.
"Am I the only one excitied by this video. That is was we should be replicating. "
That video shows a simple linear magnetic motor. These are well understood and are not overunity. They only work if you replace the moving object back to its starting place. That requires exactly the same amount of energy as the "motor" provides when you let the moving object go. This is why it is NEVER possible to have the moving object return to the start position by itself. It doesn't matter if you use gravity, springs, more magnets, or anything else. Experiment all you want with these toys but try to understand that they are not and can not be overunity.
The wiki puts it this way:
"At the starting point, it has potential energy given it by whatever put the ball there. When the ball is released, the potential energy is converted to kinetic energy as the ball rolls up and drops to the bottom. The sum of kinetic energy and potential energy is always constant (minus energy lost due to fric
You giving out his personal details really looks like some kind of revenge. Just not right. But I still think you're doing a great job.
Can we see the videos he sent you?
I'm the same "Earth to Sterling" that has been giving you some "tough love" on your Disney -Race To Witch Mountain film Examiner comments .... and the guest on your Mylow poll at 99polls that mentioned similar things about world peace and logic etc.
I hereby commend you for your first signs of true ownership for your faults. You can't grow from a problem without recognizing you have one.
I hereby commend you for finally showing more integrity by ceasing Mylow plan sales.
I hereby caution you, with the same logic that lead many of us to conclusions that you are just now coming to, albeit long ago, that you are still giving too much credence to your recent state of mind regarding "MIB" and Gullibility or "open mindedness".
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." - Carl Sagan
"The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid." - G.K. Chesterton
I hereby condemn you for not reporting on a factual, verifiable
Continued due to asinine character limits...
I hereby condemn you for not reporting on a factual, verifiable, refund of all plan sales regardless of any lack of request for such refund. You have helped to rip people off by hyping BS. It doesn't matter if your victims are trying to rationalize the idea that you do not need to refund them - it is the right thing to do. Take ownership by taking the initiative to refund all.
Stick to the facts. Stick to the ownership. Stick to the growth. Stop being a loon.
Cheers
Stick to your good intentions. Improve on matching your good intentions with good actions.
Evolvealready said: "[bunch of logic snipped]... since you don't understand how gravity works,"
If you track down my previous posts here, the race to witch mountain comments and 99polls, you will find that we are in major agreement.
I will caution you: Even the most confident physicist does not currently truly understand gravity. They only understand certain calculations of it and even those must be adjusted when pushed to limits. I hope you understand that a more elaborate discussion on these websites is probably not worth our time. Planting the point is worth this time, I think and hope.
snip...
Instead of learning after hundreds of faked flights, you cling to stories of distant, unseen successes, and keep mumbling into manes."
And by some of the words used in his latest blog, I am concerned this will continue - hence my cautions. We can only hope at this point.
Cheers
I echo that it was not wise nor mature to give out such personal information of Jose. An email is most logical. A cell phone is crossing the line in some cases, to some extent, but still not outrageous. A home address is outrageously crossing the line, especially due to crazies that have been incited by your craziness, hype and BS.
Shame on you, Sterling. There would be no famous "Mylow" to "get back at" if it weren't for your hype over nothing but your gullibility and BS.
Jose is a cockroach beyond a shadow of doubt. But Sterling must take the blame of feeding and stroking a lowly roach's ego. Now, he's using RAID on him by disclosing his personal info. Two LOW's don't make it right?
cheers
chrisC
LISTEN UP AND LISTEN CAREFULLY, FROM THIS POINT ON:
If someone claims to have a working device but yet wont show anybody or allow that device to be tested by independent sources that is a huge red flag they are lying. I dont know why Sterling ever fell for that same exact crap again when this is same nonsense used by almost every other FE fraud. You can always tell when someone is lying because they refuse to show their device. "Hey everybody, Ive got a working device but no one can see it because ..." fill in the blank. If they refuse to show the device and let it be tested they are probably lying.
Also, dont turn around and make excuses that inventors are quirky as a justification for not showing the device. You are only giving them an excuse to commit fraud. These guys know they are working on potentially world changing devices. They arent going to create a successful device then turn around and not show anyone. If they refuse to show anyone, they dont have a working dev
LOL .... ROFL!!!!!!! YOU IDIOTS!!! ... a few things I bet you still haven't considered:
1. You all provided Jose and I the best 2 months of our lives. This sh@# is hilarious!!! When we thought the whole scheme up, his wife just shook her head and called us adolescents. I don't care, I knew you free energy idiots would lap up that magnetic motor bs faster than Sterling will claim its the governments fault he couldnt pass 9th grade science.
2. Thank you so much! REALLY!!! The best moment is when despite the intense (and thereby even more hilarious) efforts of you psuedo scientist nit wits to examine the videos and report on EXTREMELY OBVIOUS FISHING LINE, STERLING STILL THOUGHT THE BLACK OPS WERE TO BLAME!!!! OH NO ITSSSSSSS OBAMA!!!!! MAYBE RON PAUL CAN HELP US?!?!?!
3. F&*k you Sterling for posting Jose's information. I f$#king dare one of you loser ass nerds to come to his house. I will shoot you dead on the door step. For the first time in 2 months, THAT IS THE TRUTH
Tony-
the next knock on "your" door will be from the Chicago police dept. Sleep well.
Once again- shame on Sterling for believing these obvious idiots!
I doubt the comment below is from Tony.
First of all, it is unlikely a member of the Concepcion family could string that many words together without royally f@cking up the spelling and syntax.
Second, we know Jose is not playing with a full deck, and with Tony being not only a family member but his twin brother, Tony is probably not all there either.
Jose did not travel 400 miles to HJ's grave as part of the hoax; he obviously has a thing for HJ, and is so schizo that he probably cannot tell the difference, half the time, between his hoax and his delusions.
My guess is the same goes for Tony - it is a family thing.
I think Mylow caved under pressure. I truthfully think he was not lying. I think he was lying (obviously) when he made the video about him saying the rotor >didn't< work. What can I say, he wasn't expecting that kinda "heat" but probably exactly the opposite from his peers. Now what has been the reaction from his peers? Have YOU been supportive? Have YOU been royal pain in ass? Have YOU been quoting from physics books like a bible? Is this your bible? If so did you even sit down with a pen and paper to go through the numbers yourself? Did you miss something or was something missing from those books? I personally love it when a person like Mylow comes along and shows something indeed is missing in those books. I personally looked at HJ patent and other presented material. Howard did go through the numbers. Seeing how he got treated, I probably do the same. Now if do manage to get one of my projects working, I won't be announcing it here. If asked expect a "Go F**k yourself"
isso acabou comigo, pois que eu até disse a minha familia "viu eu não sou louco" e agora???
great, josé, great...
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