"There seems to be no such thing"
as high speed digital electronics. There wasn’t then.
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"...neither
on the basis of experience..." |
...but
we don't experience frozen light for the simple reason that we are not moving
at c through the ether. If we were moving that fast, we would experience
frozen light. |
I sent a narrow spike (and also a
step) down a spiralling conductor (Figure 6) above ground plane in an epoxy
glass board. I probed the spike (or step) 120 inches and 234 inches down the
line. Here was the same spike (or step). See Figures 7 and 8 (spike) and
Figures 16 and 17 (step).
Figures 6, 7 and 8 are at http://www.ivorcatt.org/x0315.jpg
Figures 16 and 17 are at http://www.ivorcatt.org/x0316.jpg
For the full 1967 article, see
"Crosstalk (Noise) in Digital Systems" at http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x0359.htm
This is the standard signal from one
logic gate to the next in a digital computer, which computers comprise 95% of
today's electronics.
Except that I was seeing a spike (or
step) and not a sine wave, I was seeing exactly what Einstein said "There
seems to be no such thing, however, .... ". I
could equally well have sent a sine wave town the conductor, and inspected it
at various points. Like the spike (or step) it would have been frozen.
" ...but we don't experience frozen light for the simple reason
that we are not moving at c through the ether. If we were moving that fast, we
would experience frozen light." - John D. Norton .
I had the signal spiralling round in
front of me, and could inspect it along that distance. With two oscilloscope
probes, I could have inspected the signal at two points at the same instant in
time - frozen. - IC
Einstein wrote ""There
seems to be no such thing" in 1949, and high speed logic came
in 15 years later. This is just one aspect, or insight, gained from high
speed digital electronics which is doggedly ignored in this sort of discussion
and in Received Electromagnetic Theory in general. See http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/cattq.htm .
More recently see http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x0414.htm .
Also see http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/em.htm
At the centre of the problem is the
faulty model for the TEM Wave, "The Rolling
Wave", see http://www.ivorcatt.com/2604.htm .
This is taught by Einstein, see http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x0102em.htm
Ivor Catt 4 May 2010
