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To: Ploni who wrote (5402)	11/10/1998 1:25:00 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12623

While he was at it, did palmer figure out what gravity is and invent a gravity drive? :)

To: Ploni who wrote (5402)	11/10/1998 1:55:00 PM
From: jpmattia	Respond to of 12623

<< SilkRoad's main claim is that chairman and chief technical officer James Palmer has solved several esoteric physics equations collectively known as Maxwell's equations (after Scottish physicist James Maxwell, who posed them in the mid-19th century). They concern the relationship between space, time and bits of light, which are called photons. Up until now, scientists haven't solved these equations. >> ??? Those crazy scientists... founding the industries of radar and optics using maxwell's equations, pretending to teach the equations to graduate and undergraduate students, all without SOLUTIONS... astounding. I don't know what palmer has solved, but maxwell's equations have been solved every day since the days of Hertz, a hundred years ago. If he's talking about maxwell+quantum, then Feynman was the first (ok, add Schwinger and others) back in the 1950s. JP

To: Ploni who wrote (5402)	11/10/1998 2:00:00 PM
From: S.C. Barnard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12623

Maxwell is listed in the encyclopedia for measuring velocities of light. Some of the versions, like Brittanica have my Grandfather, Wilmer C. Anderson's light velocity measurements mentioned.

To: Ploni who wrote (5402)	11/10/1998 2:34:00 PM
From: ahhaha	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 12623

This invention has essentially nothing to do with Maxwell's equations. They tell you the field dynamic. Electric Field source is charge. Electric field diverges. Magnetic fields are sourceless, curve, and are closed. When the electric charge is moved, it induces the dual 2 form magnetic field, and in so doing propagates. You get em radiation. That's all there is to them. The invention takes the dynamic and manipulates it into a better form than was previously available. The new idea is that you don't mix and laze. In the old WDM kind of procedure the laser cavity dimension enables diffusion which is somewhat proportional to the mixing frequencies, their amplitude, and their number, among other factors. When you dump that out onto the fiber, it is already starting to decohere. The decay rate delimits both maximum inputs and transmission distance. On the other hand of you lase and then mix via photodiode, you can take advantage of the fact that the photonic field is nearly two dimensional enabling you to project a second time dimension onto the third spatial coordinate. The time compactified dimension provides the "space" for a transmission beam which exceedingly narrow, of the order of 1 Angstrom. That enables far more muxing and greater transmission distance. There's no point in attempting to criticize what you don't understand. You can start reading my comments on the Silk Road thread. You are looking for authority to "ok" something. You trust some mathematicians and scientists but not others. Your selection criteria depends upon who tells you is a worthy scientist. So you're dependent upon another less knowledgeable individual. In most cases this chain of command ends with the latrine orderly of the NYSE. If you don't learn all about how science and society work, you're helplessly dependent upon the bathroom walls. The SilkRoad thread won't take you that far up, but it will convey the fact that some companies have started the first phase of technological denial. When you add the photonics departments of the usual universities, you almost get to Galileo. I will be explaining the details, since the company is hesitant to do so. I don't blame them in the least given that the cheats and liars in our society who look at their actions as the highest ethic. Now if they were only in Trobrian...