It's a joke. The Reynold's number for the gas flow in their demonstration experiment was around 6 (assuming they injected about 50 mL of air into the first cylinder and half of that moved into the second cylinder), so all they did was show that laminar flow through a 100-m tube with a 4 mm I.D. is slow. Which it is when the pressure gradient is small.

My hunch is they are assuming that the only way mass can move through the tube is by "conduction" which they take to be molecular diffusion. But when they add the air to the first cylinder, it sets up a pressure imbalance, and that generates mass flow from the first to second cylinder. The flow is slow because the pressure differential is small, but it's just air moving from one tube to the other.

So their concept of pervection is insane, and without that, the rest of their argument falls apart. Their paper would be laughed at in a reputable physics journal.

A new mechanism of transferring energy is discovered? Something that has eluded the laws of thermodynamics? Despite the fact that we've been transferring heat through things in engineering for centuries? And you then report this astonishing discovery without a single mathematical equation to describe that process, only some vague hand-waving statement about a few seconds? And then you try to demonstrate the concept with some video of a Newton's cradle showing conservation of momentum, which has nothing to do with energy since it isn't conserved in a Newton's cradle because you can hear the 'click' of the balls?

That's not physics ... it's ********.

As you will probably hear from warmers here, I am not an alarmist, or a warmer, but an considered by a few here to be a "denier". Personally I don't buy pervection. I get the concept of some energy being expressed as kinetic energy, but it seems to have any notable impact on the total energy, you would literally have to see a notable rise in how far the atmosphere extends. This rise should have been seen and as far as I know it has not.

I think what they term 'pervection' is already included in the greenhouse effect. When a greenhouse gas molecule absorbs longwave energy it gains kinetic energy which we perceive as heat. This energy can be transferred between vibrational energy, light energy or kinetic energy until it reaches a level high enough for the energy to escape into space unimpeded. The thing they do not explain is where the original excess energy came from. It came from the Sun, heats the ground, and further warms the atmosphere via the greenhouse effect after that energy is released as heat. Retention of more energy in the troposphere results in more heat and more 'pervection'.

http://forecast.uchicago.edu/chapter4.pd...

They have given a name to the MECHANICAL transfer of energy, which apparently didn't have a name. I would have thought of a better name than "pervection" --- but I guess that's a better name than no name at all.

This means that "pervection' is not new, nor is it newly discovered --- only the name is new.

I don't think anyone is claiming to have discovered a new mode of energy transfer.

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That reads exactly like a piece of Creationist gibberish with a few appropriate substitutions.

More accurate is this representation of Ma and Pa Denier/Creationist science: