Those of us who wonder why m'learned friend @Galu is all over this thread and forum like a rash are about to be enlightened. He is #20 with a bullet in all-time Forum posters here.
He has gifted us with over 20,000 more or less carefully thought-out posts. Take a bow, Galu. It is an honour to have you with us.
It is well known that I am very expert on semiconductors, having detected the Quantum Hall Effect in Indium Antimonide as an undergraduate. Sadly I did not receive the Nobel Prize for this work.
Nowadays, I merely content myself with keeping my splendid semiconductor Cambridge Audio Topaz AM1 amplifier (30 pounds second-hand) in tip-top condition:
Look, if you want the good stuff you pay the Big Bucks to Rotel, anyway it was simply a loose red Banana socket causing cut-out problems on the right speaker.
Semiconductors and Quantum Theory are the very drivers of the modern world. I was cheered by the tale of lone mad scientist Shuji Nakamura who received the 2014 Nobel Prize for inventing a Blue LED.
The World has beaten a path to his door. My amplifier even has one!
By watching this most exciting 30 minute Veritasium video, you are spared YouTube's endless ads for Quack Medical Cures and Get Rich Quick schemes. So there's that.
He has gifted us with over 20,000 more or less carefully thought-out posts. Take a bow, Galu. It is an honour to have you with us.
It is well known that I am very expert on semiconductors, having detected the Quantum Hall Effect in Indium Antimonide as an undergraduate. Sadly I did not receive the Nobel Prize for this work.
Nowadays, I merely content myself with keeping my splendid semiconductor Cambridge Audio Topaz AM1 amplifier (30 pounds second-hand) in tip-top condition:
Look, if you want the good stuff you pay the Big Bucks to Rotel, anyway it was simply a loose red Banana socket causing cut-out problems on the right speaker.
Semiconductors and Quantum Theory are the very drivers of the modern world. I was cheered by the tale of lone mad scientist Shuji Nakamura who received the 2014 Nobel Prize for inventing a Blue LED.
The World has beaten a path to his door. My amplifier even has one!
By watching this most exciting 30 minute Veritasium video, you are spared YouTube's endless ads for Quack Medical Cures and Get Rich Quick schemes. So there's that.
I have determined that the meteor will arrive on December 22nd 2032, and so will post my Christmas cards well in advance.
Whilst it looks like we can't stop it, if it is due to hit Portsmouth, I think we may slightly deflect it onto the nearly empty wilderness of Scotland with a rocket..
I have been to Scotland, and feel I have been there and done it and can still demonstrate a fleet turn of foot when mixing with the locals.
I will resist tired jokes about Scottish "Cludgies", or "Haggis" (You EAT this stuff?):
Another useful scientific solution from my fertile imagination, one feels.
Whilst it looks like we can't stop it, if it is due to hit Portsmouth, I think we may slightly deflect it onto the nearly empty wilderness of Scotland with a rocket..
I have been to Scotland, and feel I have been there and done it and can still demonstrate a fleet turn of foot when mixing with the locals.
I will resist tired jokes about Scottish "Cludgies", or "Haggis" (You EAT this stuff?):
Another useful scientific solution from my fertile imagination, one feels.
I told you I should get a life!
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2014 was awarded jointly to Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura "for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources".
It was 32 years after the invention of the first red LED that a semiconductor material (indium gallium nitride) was found that had a high enough energy gap to produce blue light. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/how-blue-leds-work-and-why-they-deserve-the-physics-nobel/
I heard your last visit was to the Empire Theatre in Glasgow as a stand-up comedian.
The audience was with you all the way - until you lost them at the station!
Had to search for hi-res images to check the innards, but it appears to be a decent budget amp with a congenial distortion spectrum.
I'm considering monos with similar output power:
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Oops! For a moment I thought I had strayed into the wrong forum! 😉
Only talk of quantum amplifiers should be encouraged here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_amplifier
Interesting technology, but I don't foresee any applications for analog audio reproduction yet > which is (fortunately) a chaotic domain.
Sometimes the inventions (and the names) of truly brilliant people - who usually arrive at their discoveries on the basis of 'experience' (awareness), are 'misused'.
An example:
I've listened to 2 of these amps...
Soulless.
Sometimes the inventions (and the names) of truly brilliant people - who usually arrive at their discoveries on the basis of 'experience' (awareness), are 'misused'.
An example:
I've listened to 2 of these amps...
Soulless.
Re "Built With Tesla Coils".
It would be pertinent to the title of this thread to mention Tesla's theory of gravity:
Tesla claimed his "Dynamic Theory of Gravity" would dispense with Einstein's "false" conception of a curved spacetime.
His theory was based around an "aether" that filled all space. Unlike the aether of Maxwell and Hertz, Tesla's aether consisted of "independent carriers immersed in an insulating fluid” and had properties that varied according to relative movement, the presence of mass, and the electric and magnetic environment.
Tesla proposed that this aether became "rigidified" by rapidly varying electrostatic forces, and was thereby involved in gravitational effects, inertia, and momentum.
Apparently, when Albert Einstein was asked how it felt to be the “smartest person alive”, he replied, “I don’t know, you’ll have to ask Nikola Tesla.”
https://www.aetherforce.energy/teslas-dynamic-theory-of-gravity/
It would be pertinent to the title of this thread to mention Tesla's theory of gravity:
Tesla claimed his "Dynamic Theory of Gravity" would dispense with Einstein's "false" conception of a curved spacetime.
His theory was based around an "aether" that filled all space. Unlike the aether of Maxwell and Hertz, Tesla's aether consisted of "independent carriers immersed in an insulating fluid” and had properties that varied according to relative movement, the presence of mass, and the electric and magnetic environment.
Tesla proposed that this aether became "rigidified" by rapidly varying electrostatic forces, and was thereby involved in gravitational effects, inertia, and momentum.
Apparently, when Albert Einstein was asked how it felt to be the “smartest person alive”, he replied, “I don’t know, you’ll have to ask Nikola Tesla.”
https://www.aetherforce.energy/teslas-dynamic-theory-of-gravity/
Ye Gods, I only have to step away from this thread for a couple of hours to listen to Manchester City match mighty Real Madrid for 90 minutes, only to score a last minute goal and have dear Pep Guardiola stumbling off in numb disappointment...and we have descended into off-topicness.
Amplifiers in a nurshell:
Early Cambridge Audio Darlington power amps, designed by my good friend Mike Creek, mostly famous for cheap amplifiers. Blow up with 4 ohm load and fritz the whole thing, not just the fuses. My nephew gave me his, saying it had just popped a fuse.
My Cambridge Audio Amp:
Cheap at every level. Chip amp output, noisy potentiometers, cheap transformer, unreliable plastic connectors. An insult to a person who was expecting it to work like my old Rotel.
New Cambridge Audio Amps: Now look like Rotel. Why am I not surprised? Most amp companies just dismantle rival companies products to find the "Secret Sauce" and implement it.
Anyway, after the footie, Radio 5 Live's Tony Livesey mentioned that Scientists have just upgraded our calculated chances of meteor impact in 2032 from 1.3% to 2.2%.
Or it might hit the Moon! As he said, "What is that about?". Do these children have a future?
Amplifiers in a nurshell:
Early Cambridge Audio Darlington power amps, designed by my good friend Mike Creek, mostly famous for cheap amplifiers. Blow up with 4 ohm load and fritz the whole thing, not just the fuses. My nephew gave me his, saying it had just popped a fuse.
My Cambridge Audio Amp:
Cheap at every level. Chip amp output, noisy potentiometers, cheap transformer, unreliable plastic connectors. An insult to a person who was expecting it to work like my old Rotel.
New Cambridge Audio Amps: Now look like Rotel. Why am I not surprised? Most amp companies just dismantle rival companies products to find the "Secret Sauce" and implement it.
Anyway, after the footie, Radio 5 Live's Tony Livesey mentioned that Scientists have just upgraded our calculated chances of meteor impact in 2032 from 1.3% to 2.2%.
Or it might hit the Moon! As he said, "What is that about?". Do these children have a future?
There's news of a new development in astrophysics that promises to enhance our ability to detect asteroids before they can pose a risk to Earth.
https://scienceinformed.com/astrophysics-breakthrough-the-promise-of-improved-asteroid-detection/#:~:text=In an era marked by growing awareness of,before they can pose a risk to Earth.
The method of detection is based on an equation that provides a high degree of accuracy in calculating the angle though which light is bent by gravity.
The equation will enhance the precision with which we can determine the trajectory of smaller celestial objects impacted by gravitational forces.
It's all a bit vague, I'm afraid!
In other news, scientists are about to point the James Webb Space Telescope at asteroid 2024 YR4 in the hope of better understanding its orbit.
And because the JWST is able to look at the infrared light that is emitted from the asteroid, it can provide a much better estimate of its size than that currently based on how much light it reflects from the Sun. https://www.msn.com/en-us/science/astronomy/nasa-using-world-s-most-powerful-telescope-to-examine-asteroid-that-could-smash-into-earth/ar-AA1yLpvk?ocid=BingNewsSerp
That work is happening against the clock because the asteroid will fade from view in a few months’ time, and is not expected to come back until 2028.
https://scienceinformed.com/astrophysics-breakthrough-the-promise-of-improved-asteroid-detection/#:~:text=In an era marked by growing awareness of,before they can pose a risk to Earth.
The method of detection is based on an equation that provides a high degree of accuracy in calculating the angle though which light is bent by gravity.
The equation will enhance the precision with which we can determine the trajectory of smaller celestial objects impacted by gravitational forces.
It's all a bit vague, I'm afraid!
In other news, scientists are about to point the James Webb Space Telescope at asteroid 2024 YR4 in the hope of better understanding its orbit.
And because the JWST is able to look at the infrared light that is emitted from the asteroid, it can provide a much better estimate of its size than that currently based on how much light it reflects from the Sun. https://www.msn.com/en-us/science/astronomy/nasa-using-world-s-most-powerful-telescope-to-examine-asteroid-that-could-smash-into-earth/ar-AA1yLpvk?ocid=BingNewsSerp
That work is happening against the clock because the asteroid will fade from view in a few months’ time, and is not expected to come back until 2028.
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You paid 30 pounds for the Cambridge? That's a fair price, new or good as new.
As far as 'science' is concerned, a blast from the past:
The only thing you can trust is that you exist, no more and no less.
Mark my words, because we're in for (even more) shenanigans.
Your post is annoyingly incomplete since it does not supply a link to the CBC News article in question.
I'm sure that contributors here would like to access its contents: https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/technocracy-incorporated-elon-musk/
The article talks of a group formed in the first half of last century that advocated putting scientists in charge in order to reorganise society.
Technocracy Inc. rally at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles in 1941
That's a scary looking bunch of people!
I don't think the regular contributors to this thread, knowing as much about scientists as they do, would contemplate putting them in charge!
Can we get on with the real science please and avoid getting involved in the political machinations mentioned at the end of the article?
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Your post is annoyingly incomplete since it does not supply a link to the CBC News article in question.
I'm sure that contributors here would like to access its contents: https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/technocracy-incorporated-elon-musk/
The article talks of a group formed in the first half of last century that advocated putting scientists in charge in order to reorganise society.
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Technocracy Inc. rally at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles in 1941
That's a scary looking bunch of people!
I don't think the regular contributors to this thread, knowing as much about scientists as they do, would contemplate putting them in charge!
Can we get on with the real science please?
What constitutes real science in your opinion?