I'd be interested in your analysis of the following abstract of a paper by James R. Palmer, J.D., Ph.D, who is the chief technical officer of SilkRoad and one of the inventors of the only patent SilkRoad presently holds. I have to say that the part about the five dimensions plus time gives me pause.
>>TOPIC: Optical Refractive Synchronization: Coherent Information in a Waveguide
SPEAKER: Dr. James R. Palmer (SilkRoad, Inc., San Diego, Ca. U.S.A)
WHEN: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 at 8pm
ABSTRACT: I am going to introduce this paper by beginning with a definition of Optical Refractive Synchronization. Fundamentally, the process of refraction is the
change of energy, direction or speed of a light beam that is propagating through a medium. In the one case, the change in direction is a continuous bending of the light
beam and the subsequent change of speed of the light in the medium that is referred to as the index of refraction of the material. In the second case, there is the
abrupt change in the index, polarity or phase of the medium that directs the energy out of the medium, or changes the ability of the light to pass through the medium,
thereby absorbing the energy. The second case is the technique employed in Optical Refractive Synchronization. The light is passed through a crystal which has the
refractive index changed abruptly, and subsequently the electric field, by mixing a radio frequency signal into the crystal which then creates a modulation on to the
wavelength of light passing through, or absorbing, in the crystal at the frequency of the radio signal that is to be modulated onto the light beam. This Optical
Modulation is performed, therefore, through the application of the refraction of the optical signal.
Unlike the conventional wisdom, in my formulation, the x and y components of the electromagnetic wave vectors are not independent of space and, most
importantly, are not independent of time. In order for Optical Refractive Synchronization to work, space and time must both be dealt with in all three orthogonal
dimensions. As I progress through the analysis, it will become apparent to the reader that we are dealing with five (5) dimensions with the addition of time. Maxwell?s
field equations describe the coupling between the electric and magnetic field vectors and their interaction with matter in space and time. For the most part, I will use
as my initial basis, the work of Born and Wolf dealing with the propagation of light in anisotropic crystals. Most especially, I will deal with polarized waves where we
find that, " . . in an anisotropic medium the energy is in general propagated with a different velocity and in a direction different from that of the wave normal." To add
insult to injury, I will also avail myself of the fine work of Richard Beth and many of those scholars that followed his work in the development and measurement of
angular momentum of photons. For the most part, this is a function of azimuthal position symmetric to a circular axis providing a distribution of electric field, or
magnetic field energy relative to the distance from the "z" axis to the outer radius in a waveguide.
This paper, then, will introduce the characteristic equations that describe going from a two dimensional radio frequency world into a five dimension plus time optical
world. At the end of the day, however, the reader will grasp that by using optical constants for various materials that the two worlds can be readily resolved into the
continuation from one to the other without discontinuity. Obviously, this will require a different perspective on the two worlds. However, it is my intent to integrate
these two worlds into one mathematical technique that will be fungible in whatever world one finds themselves.<<
PROFESSIONAL BIOGRAPHY: J. R. Palmer is presently the Chief Technical Officer of SilkRoad, Inc.<<
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