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Pastimes : The New Qualcomm - write what you like thread. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Richard Belanger who wrote (2092)	9/13/2000 12:46:44 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12231

<font color=black>GET <font color=red>It <font color=black>HERE Damn, I'd written a big scientific, Nobel Prize winning rant and IE5 suddenly advised me that errors were created and the program was creating an error log and 'poof' into cyberspace it went. So, I'll sulk for a day and have another go at finishing the X + M = 2C theory. Meanwhile, while bobbing on a surfboard, in a nice, smooth swell, imagine 100s of buoys around you, anchored to the bottom, [with a metre of slack rope when no waves are coming]. They float up and down as the swell comes and goes. If the buoys each have a bell which rings when the rope goes tight, and the swell is almost, but not quite enough to make the bells ring, that is a bit like a bond almost, but not quite breaking when a photon is absorbed. Suppose now a ship sails by out there in the ocean. The wake shimmers across the surface, forming an interference pattern with the big, high-energy waves which are smoothly cruising by without ringing the bell. When the wake reaches the bell-zone, there will be some cancellation of waves at some points and some superposition at others. The bells which are at superposition positions will start ringing. The others [where the waves cancel] will be even less inclined to ring. So, whereas initially, there was no bell-ringing, suddenly there is lots of bell-ringing, even though the little wake waves would not be big enough to ring the bells on their own. Since photons are wave-functions, they too will interfere when an electron-buoy absorbs their energy as they hit. If you have a 2GHz wave, it has 0.01% of the energy needed to ring the bell. But if at the same time there is a bunch of high-energy photons coming in, then there will be superposition of the wave functions and lots of bell-ringing whereas there was none without the addition of the extra energy. Okay, I'll let the photons and buoys bob around for now. Back in a day or so.. Mqurice PS: Explanation for Get It Here here: Message 14373722 It [TM] being the sentient WWeb and access to It. It is where it's at [to coin a phrase]