Jones, I am more annoyed than offended. You may take offense to my critical remarks concerning your rehtorical style. I don't think it is wise to use speculation as a means of persuasion. This what I meant by "excessive speculation."
Harry Modes of persuasion >From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The modes of persuasion are devices in rhetoric that classify the speaker's appeal to the audience. They are: ethos, pathos and logos. Aristotle's On Rhetoric describes the modes of persuasion thus: Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated. Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. [...] Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. [...] Secondly, persuasion may come through the hearers, when the speech stirs their emotions. [...] Thirdly, persuasion is effected through the speech itself when we have proved a truth or an apparent truth by means of the persuasive arguments suitable to the case in question... ----- Original Message ----- From: Jones Beene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, November 6, 2007 12:57 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:Diode Array > Resend: The original, sent 4 hours ago is still bouncing around in > German-cyberspeace, for some strange reason. > > > --- Charlie, > > At the risk of offending more readers here with > excessive speculation, let me mention that the > Stiffler circuit mentioned in recent threads, could be > very similar to your and Paul's concept- but in a > number of inadvertent ways. That is, similar to what > you are attempting except that the output is found in > visible light radiation, rather than electricity. > > He is mixing LEDs, which are of course a type of > diode, with signal diodes together with a reactive > transformer core- along with input from a small > external signal (~50 or more milliwatts) to get more > light out, in photons, than the input power would > suggest is possible. > > Among many possible explanations for this is that > ambient infrared and terahertz radiation (ambient > heat) is being converted (upshifted) into the visible > range of photons by the negative resistance range of > the LEDs. > > Did this possibility occur to you already, or am I too > far removed from reality to realize how 'excessive' > such a suggestion can seem? > > Jones >
