----- Original Message ----- From: "Nick Palmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 3:27 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:NET Scratches?
> http://newenergytimes.com/tgp/2007TGP/2007TGP-Report.htm > > > Re the Galileo report: > Shooting from my not scientific enough hip, my immediate impression was that > somehow there was > some sort of resonance effect causing the repeating 6'ish pattern of pits in > Kowalski's slide. As > the stylus is dragged across the surface, I speculate that intense > "fingernails down a blackboard" > sound waves are being created and that weakens/changes the molecular > structure of the CR39 causing > the repeated pattern pits when the plastic is acid-etched later on. Or rather the other way round: the stylus tip vibrations as it is dragged along create the scratch pattern and the sound. > Or not. Shoot me down at will. Bang bang, or should it be screeeeeech ;-) Michel
