I disagree, the experts are always right, its just the people who are claiming to be an 'expert' are not always so. I hear this in a commencement speach this year "keep a healthy disregard for the impossible" and all engineers should have this. This 'flaw' in transistor theory only presents itself in high density IC if you read the article, and I would suspect it has to do with no longer being able to follow partical theory, which is what works for discrete transistors, soon as things get small enough, wave theory takes over, and common conventions are no longer valid, however maxwells equations always apply to both... its just the terms you ignored in certain cases start to become significant. I would bet this follows the press release model found here: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1174 and some liberties are being taken with interpretation.
Matt W8ESE Former KD8DAO http://blog.MattIsKichigai.com On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Sandy<ebj...@charter.net> wrote: > This reminds me of Major Edwin Armstrong's "saying" he used so much, > especially when he was told by Crosby that "wideband FM would not be > practical". > > Amstrong retorted to himself with "It's what we know that ain't always so!" > (or something very close to that.) > > I have seen phenomena regarding grounding of marine transmitters and > presence of RF in strange places where it should not be MANY TIMES. Also > other things regarding feeders and antennas on ships that would not work as > advrtised, or as the engineers claimed they would! > > I still have one occurnce of something that happened during trouble shooting > of a 35' shipboard vertical with a "top hat" that occurred on the 425-515 > Khz. band nobody yet has given me a valid explanation for. > > The "experts" are not always even close to right all the time! > > 73, > > Sandy W5TVW > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ron D'Eau Claire" <r...@cobi.biz> > To: "'Elecraft Group'" <elecraft@mailman.qth.net> > Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 10:00 PM > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: transistor theory flaw > > >> Tnx Mike. >> >> It reminds me that vacuum tube theory wasn't understood for many years >> after >> they were developed. Shoot, here in the USA DeForest thought a vacuum tube >> *needed* some gas to work properly (and his tubes all had abysmally low >> gain >> as a result). >> >> If what the learned "experts" knew was right, Marconi would never have >> been >> successful. For decades they had stated that electromagnetic (radio) waves >> were useless for communications over any significant distance. >> >> "What everyone knows", including everything we learned in school, is >> always >> open to question. >> >> Ron AC7AC >> >> -----Original Message----- >> I just read this short article and thought many on the list might find >> it interesting: >> >> http://eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=NQXUQGBIEWGHCQSN >> DLRSKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=217600659 >> >> If that URL gets broken, here is a smaller url to the same: >> >> http://tinyurl.com/o4cwpj >> >> 73, >> Mike ab3ap >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.339 / Virus Database: 270.12.43/2139 - Release Date: 05/28/09 > 08:10:00 > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
