The Exception Proves that the Rule is Wrong

"The exception tests the rule." Or, put another way, "The exception proves that the rule is wrong."

That is the principle of science.

If there is an exception to any rule, and if it can be proved by observation, that rule is wrong.

- Richard Feynman, who won the Nobel prize in physics in 1965

Richard Feynman is probably the best known scientist in the world you probably never heard of. In the movie, Infinity, Mathew Broderick plays Feynman.

Feynman’s greatest teaching is that the student should view physics in a natural and intuitive way. Feynman’s life demonstrates that authority should be questioned and that one’s own teachers can be honored by the improvement of their work.

The Switching Battery uses a new battery connection method called the "para-series" battery connection method. I have explained this technology in my USPTO patent filings published on April 9, 2020 (Pub. No: US 2020/0112184 A1). This method technically should not exist and its existence shows that my science teachers who taught me that you cannot hook up batteries in parallel and series at the same time, were "not correct". The only reason why I would hesitate to state that they were plainly "wrong" is to give them the benefit of doubt for not seeing things more "wholly" as they probably saw things from a static point of view or from a limited perspective.

Had my science teachers and the millions of other teachers encouraged exploring minds, someone would certainly have invented the para-series battery connection method well before my involvement. All that our teachers had to do was to open our minds and not teach the dogma of science especially since we ourselves know so very little about space or time.

Nature needs to be explored and I do not see it as being reserved strictly for the scientific mind alone. Exploring nature, one therefore must have the ability to question always. The question 'why?' is the most troubling question one has to face (and I have gone through numerous mid-life crisis to know that) and we inadvertently attempt to be practical to ask the 'how?' question instead. The 'how?' gets us some distance for a while but without the 'why?', our curious mind will never be satisfied. How could we be happy not knowing why we are happy?

I hope you will review the following statements and trust that you will be inquisitive to do your own research to confirm or deny (in your mind) the 8 statements below:

1. Batteries were invented about 200 years ago;
2. Batteries were in commercial use actively for at least the last 100 years with the first electric vehicle produced about 100 years ago;
3. Internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles became the norm because we found it cheap to extract oil; The oil companies used their power to exploit the Middle East and even built the first super-tankers to transport them so that oil became cheap.
4. EV technology of today - well it is the same as that we had 100 years ago where you just connect larger and better batteries. But where is the EV with renewable charging capability? And why claim EV is green technology when the charging using non-renewable energy?
5. All research funding is allocated only for creating better batteries but we have never questioned the battery connection methods. Sure, we made lots of improvements by spending billions just to figure out the right combination of the periodic table that could work better for the batteries.
6. Transistor switches were invented in the 1950s and would have enabled battery technology had we not been restricted by our knowledge taught in school that you can't connect batteries in parallel and series at the same time. In fact, Einstein solved the equation of time (which depended on your relative position, hence the term "relativity") that is being applied to solve and create the new 2 independent isolated circuits in parallel and series.
7. We stopped questioning the authority of our science teachers and our top scientists who insist that you can only have 2 battery connection method.
8. I am convinced we can have both, by shifting time into 2 independent quick cycles, one in parallel circuit and another in series circuit so that one is isolated from the other.

I carried out my final tests to confirm that you can connect 100 batteries in parallel and series using an isolated circuit method using MOSFET switches. I was excited and shared my knowledge with an email to the Singapore Prime Minister.

The Prime Minister's office then referred it to their top scientists at NTU. I also contacted AStar, Singapore's top "agency for science and technology" with thousands of top researchers. I had an initial contact and shared my findings with these top scientists in charge but then everything just stopped. I discovered the meaning of "Not Invented Here" (NIH).

NIH is a real disease among the top minds in the research industry. I call it a disease because I do not think that anyone was born with it. I think we were all born curious to investigate and to know things for ourselves and somewhere along the way we bought into an idea called fear. I do not see myself as a threat to anyone as I just wanted to know what my learned friends from science had to say.

I discovered, from personal experience, that the funding for EV and clean technology in Singapore (and perhaps in many other countries) is allocated internally within governments. NTU and AStar are controlled by the Singapore government and although the Singapore government has announced a huge budget for research and the "Green Plan", I was ignored because the NTU and AStar guys probably want the chunk of it for their own departments. It's a cultural disease discussed in textbooks but no one has really addressed this problem. At the minimum, it puts NTU and AStar in positions of conflict. As a Singaporean, I had wanted to share my full research on the experiments I had carried out with my team at Fizix Labs, and to share this with my fellow Singaporeans then so that the invention could belong to Singapore. Finally in December 2020, after 2 months of non-responsiveness from the government, I decided to move-on and pursue my other options in various countries and to build the Switching Battery device myself and to sell it as cheap as possible.

My "why" question is really in response to my curiosity seeking to know where our education system has failed. My background is "I am an educator with over 25 years experience" in building colleges in Singapore and India and am happy that I have successful students all around the world. I take pride that many of my students have exceeded my expectations (while I was humbled by this "battery project" since 2005). Because if a para-series with the advantage that I state in my patent documents really exists, then it could also point the fault at our education system: Did we "over-teach" perhaps? Over-teaching and over-emphasis perhaps frightened the "sh##" out of our brains that we refused to think that any other way is possible?

Feynman’s greatest lesson and his simplest was that the pursuit of knowledge is ultimately its own reward. Feynman says that if we ask by searching and searching (also called researching) in that way, if we become blind bloodhounds on the trail of “WHY?!” then we will eventually look around and find ourselves at a point where what we currently understand is painfully insufficient.

True learning begins for each one of us when we identify ourselves as "explorers". Every exploration involves risk and one has to overcome fear to know who we really are, individually and collectively. My new company logo for Switching Battery depicts 11 dots, some connected and some not connected, and I see the unconnected dots are the ones that enables me to open my mind to possibilities.

I further hope to connect the dots by connecting with people everywhere. To learn from you (EV, solar, renewable and battery industry) and to see if the solution of a para-series battery connection method can be produced inexpensively to solve people's energy needs, especially in countries like India, Africa and South America.