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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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Can't think of a witty .sigline today....


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