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"Because it's all a fraud. There's nothing to any of it. This is something being promoted by charletans and fakers, weirdos who sit in their garages jamming wires together, and making machines that don't do anything." Mark declared.

"Well, maybe, but DoE doesn't say that. Dr. Khan at DoE didn't seem to be a real weirdo. I don't understand, if the DoE thinks there might be something to this, what's wrong with researching it?" Thomas asked.

"Theodore Taylor is a friend of yours, isn't he?" Mark asked. "Get in touch with him. Ask him about this."

"I'll do that. Why don't you give Dr. Kahn a call?"

"I will, but there's no point to it. This is something that respected scientists agree violates physics as we know it. If this group promotes ZPE it will it will make you look like a bunch of flakes. I mean, look at the words, 'the Holy Grail of energy research,' it's flakey."

"I'm amazed, Mark." Thomas shot back. "Sounds like a few years ago you'd've been saying, 'The earth is flat,' or 'The sun revolves around the earth,' or 'You'll never get a heavier-than-air-machine off the ground'."

"I have to tell you that if MFPE makes ZPE part of it's platform, I'm going to devote myself to exposing this group as a bunch of know-nothings."

"Gee, Mark, you're a smart young guy, I'm sure you can think of something more productive to do than bugging a bunch of college kids who are just trying to improve the world. Why don't you protest against Shell, or Standard Oil, or something."

"This is obviously an issue that needs more discussion." Said a young Hindu woman, trying to keep things on track. "I suggest we table this, and have more discussion after people have had time to think about it a little more."