RE: Attention to detail lacking
Careful, or you'll be W.A.S.T.E.d Oedipa was perfectly sane - it was the people around her who were interesting. TCOL49 was my first introduction to conspiracy theory and the notion of 'hidden history'. I remember it fondly. Peter -- From: Phillip H. Zakas[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 10:29 AM To: Tim May; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Attention to detail lacking Tim May Wrote: I think Choate is much like this tech of mine: lacking a solid grounding and overly reliant on his own private notions of what mass and energy and group velocity and so on are. All the best cranks view the world this way. maybe Choate is the long lost son of oedipa maas. phillip
Re: Attention to detail lacking
At 8:35 PM -0700 7/24/01, Tim May wrote: At 8:24 PM -0700 7/24/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think Choate is much like this tech of mine: Have you ever seen the two of them together? (Not that college physics is needed. I should hope not, I've got a Fine Art degree with a smattering of philosophy and English. Which is why I work with computers for a living. When I was in high school I knew enough about physics and math not to have made some of the boners Choate has come out with.) I don't know enough math, but I know that I don't, so where I get confused I ask.
RE: Attention to detail lacking
Tim May Wrote: I think Choate is much like this tech of mine: lacking a solid grounding and overly reliant on his own private notions of what mass and energy and group velocity and so on are. All the best cranks view the world this way. maybe Choate is the long lost son of oedipa maas. phillip
RE: Attention to detail lacking
At 10:29 AM -0400 7/25/01, Phillip H. Zakas wrote: Tim May Wrote: I think Choate is much like this tech of mine: lacking a solid grounding and overly reliant on his own private notions of what mass and energy and group velocity and so on are. All the best cranks view the world this way. maybe Choate is the long lost son of oedipa maas. What a w.a.s.t.e. --Tim May -- Timothy C. May [EMAIL PROTECTED]Corralitos, California Political: Co-founder Cypherpunks/crypto anarchy/Cyphernomicon Technical: physics/soft errors/Smalltalk/Squeak/agents/games/Go Personal: b.1951/UCSB/Intel '74-'86/retired/investor/motorcycles/guns
Re: Attention to detail lacking
Tim, I think the reflected beam has the same wavelength as the incident beam. Photons hitting a surface most definitely do not lose some energy and get re-emitted. There are some very particular configurations that can act as wavelength doublers, but this is a particular, and hard to set up, configuration. Photons hitting a mirror either are re-emitted with the same energy as before or interact via the photoelectric effect and are thermalized (converted to phonons). That colors are preserved in mirrors, absent tints (special absorbers), is a Physics 1 clue that mirrors do not downshift photon energies!. The reason for the weak statement I think is that I imagine you might make an argument that the momentum transfer from the photon to the mirror results in a very small doppler shift...I'm just not positive about it at the smallest level of interaction. I think Choate is much like this tech of mine: lacking a solid grounding and overly reliant on his own private notions of what mass and energy and group velocity and so on are. All the best cranks view the world this way. I don't know Choate's educational background, but I would not be at all surprised if he is self-taught and moved into computers out of some technician training school. I've reached the same conclusion. I've known some very bright people who lacked access to a formal education. The results were some startling levels of understanding mixed right in with some mind blowing misconceptions and some outright gaps. Mike
