chinablues;156646 Wrote: > Too many years ago, an EE Professor at Strathclyde Univ where I was > studying Electrical Engineering, used to wire himself up to some sort > of electronic counter & count the number of photons that would hit him > as he drank his cuppa. You sure this was photons? Wouldn't there be trillions of them (unless he drank his cuppa in a darkroom)? If you're talking about particles from outer space (cosmic rays), it'd be things like muons that you'd want to count.
> Some reckoned he marked the exam papers on this basis. A physics tutor at London Uni, where I was studying Astrophysics, claimed that he marked exam papers by throwing them down the stairs and seeing where they landed. (I failed his course, by the way, and am ashamed to admit that I can't blame it on my answer paper's aerodynamics). -- cliveb Performers -> dozens of mixers and effects -> clipped/hypercompressed mastering -> you think a few extra ps of jitter matters? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29025 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
