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RE: SNR calculations (was Re: setup.exe missing from FTP site)
On 31 May 2007 15:14, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> On Thu, 31 May 2007, Charles Wilson wrote:
>
>> Igor Peshansky wrote:
>>
>>> Even if the diagonal size wasn't less than the diameter of the hole,
>>> my son, when he was 1 year old, usually just used a hammer.
>>>
>>> That, or assume that at the speed of light either the hole or the
>>> photon will give...
>>
>> Nah, you guys are all wrong. A square photon is one whose oscillations
>> follow a square-wave pattern rather than sinusoidal. Thus, by Fourier
>> decomposition it can be shown that the square photon is actually
>> composed of an infinite sequence of equal-or-higher-frequency "regular"
>> sinusoidal ones. So: a square photon actually has /higher/ energy
>> content than a regular photon with the same fundamental frequency: in
>> the limit, it has infinite energy. Say, maybe we could harness one of
>> these suckers to solve the world's greenhouse gas emission issues by
>> eliminating dependence on hydrocarbons. Boy, Big Oil won't like that
>> idea -- HEY -- WHO ARE YOU GUYS -- LET ME GO -- WHAT ARE YOU DOI
>
> Well, you did manage, in the last desperate convulsion, to hit "Send". :-)
Yeah, but he was clearly in too much of a hurry to add the traditional
sign-off.
cheers,
DaveK
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