Time-Nuts, New members to the Time-Nuts list may wonder if the Time-Nut disease has infected them just by joining the list. A clear indication that someone has been infected with the Time-Nut disease is they own a reference that provides accurate time to better than 1us and frequency to better than 1e-9. This is a mild form of the disease, but as the infection progresses multiple standards appear, each having greater accuracy than the last. Analysis of the number of standards owned and their relative accuracy during this stage will give an indication of the severity of the infection. This stage of the disease can continue for many years, slowly draining the persons time and money at an ever increasing rate, as the infected party attempts to improve the time and frequency accuracy of their standards and be able to prove with greater certainty accuracy they have achieved. In the later stages of the disease the patient will have at least three standards with a frequency accuracy of 1e-12 and a time accuracy of 1ns and be performing 3-corner hat analysis on them. They will also be examining at least one other standard that exceeds these accuracy levels. They will own specialized test equipment such as a Dual Mixer Time Difference Multiplier for testing other devices against their existing standards. Severe forms of the malady will cause the patient to strive for less than 1ps time accuracy and less than 1e-15 frequency accuracy even though they have no real use for standards with this level of accuracy. They will begin justifying increasingly large expenditures for even better standards and test equipment just to be able to test what they already have with no other purpose in mind. The disease will continue to progress until ultimately all of the patients personal time and money are exhausted or they die. Unfortunately there is no known cure for the Time-Nut disease, although it can be managed by applying a strictly controlled budget to the patientÂ’s purchases during the early stages of the disease.
Richard P.S. This was written for enjoyment and should not be taken seriously as an indication of a true medical condition. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
