RE: Thompson's Lamp

2003-10-20 Thread Mark Williamson
Just been musing about this on the train home. There are two parts of the system an ideal lamp and a clock generator. The clock generator is what is interesting and it is implementing a pulse train representing zeno's paradox. The clock generator will fail in the time quanta just prior to

Re: Thompson's Lamp

2003-10-20 Thread Hal Finney
Norman Samish writes: > I've been looking for an idiot savant to answer this question: Perhaps > you've heard of Thompson's Lamp. This is an ideal lamp, capable of > infinite switching speed and using electricity that travels at infinite > speed. At time zero it is on. After one minute it is t

Thompson's Lamp

2003-10-20 Thread Norman Samish
Welcome, I've been looking for an idiot savant to answer this question:   Perhaps you've heard of Thompson's Lamp.  This is an ideal lamp, capable of infinite switching speed and using electricity that travels at infinite speed.  At time zero it is on.  After one minute it is turned off.  Af