# The trial of Elizabeth Holmes (Theranos)\[sentenced to 11+ yrs, 18Nov2022\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 10, 2021, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trial-of-elizabeth-holmes-theranos-sentenced-to-11-yrs-18nov2022/946138 "2021-07-10T04:42:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 76
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2021, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trial-of-elizabeth-holmes-theranos-sentenced-to-11-yrs-18nov2022/946138/76 "2021-09-13T01:27:57Z")
> [@gdave](#): > > crankery. [Here’s a pretty good explanation](http://www.moreisdifferent.com/2015/02/22/teslas-folly-why-wardenclyff-didnt-work/) for why his ideas didn’t, and _can’t_ , work. In 2018 I wrote: > [@A company in Texas is trying to transmit wireless power around the Earth.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-company-in-texas-is-trying-to-transmit-wireless-power-around-the-earth/825477/16): > > A claim is that the idea is theoretically possible with the right conditions: my math and physics stopped at undergraduate level and I can’t analyze that claim. Finally, a link to someone who’s math and physics _didn’t_ stop at undergraduate level! For future reference: a solution to a simplified form of Maxwell’s equations is theoretically (though not practically) possible, under the twin assumptions that the speed of light is both infinitely fast and finitely slow. (The author also observes that Tesla didn’t attach any importance to the math, and believed that his black box would work, once he worked out the details: the similarities and differences to Theranos are entertaining) --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trial-of-elizabeth-holmes-theranos-sentenced-to-11-yrs-18nov2022/946138)._