RE: Attention to detail lacking

2001-07-27 Thread Trei, Peter
Phillip H. Zakas[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 10:29 AM > To: Tim May; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Attention to detail lacking > > Tim May Wrote: > > > I think Choate is much like this tech of mine: lacking a solid > &g

Re: Attention to detail lacking

2001-07-26 Thread mmotyka
Tim, >>I think the reflected beam has the same wavelength as the incident beam. > >Photons hitting a surface most definitely do not "lose some energy" >and get "re-emitted." There are some very particular configurations >that can act as wavelength doublers, but this is a particular, and >hard

RE: Attention to detail lacking

2001-07-26 Thread Tim May
At 10:29 AM -0400 7/25/01, Phillip H. Zakas wrote: >Tim May Wrote: > >> I think Choate is much like this tech of mine: lacking a solid >> grounding and overly reliant on his own private notions of what >> "mass" and "energy" and "group velocity" and so on are. All the best >> cranks view the w

RE: Attention to detail lacking

2001-07-26 Thread Phillip H. Zakas
Tim May Wrote: > I think Choate is much like this tech of mine: lacking a solid > grounding and overly reliant on his own private notions of what > "mass" and "energy" and "group velocity" and so on are. All the best > cranks view the world this way. maybe Choate is the long lost son of oedip

Attention to detail lacking

2001-07-26 Thread mmotyka
Jim, I think you often don't word things carefully enough. The resulting discussions get pointless in a big hurry. >>> >>>The optics used for focusing are NOT mirrors, they are (hopefully) >>>transparent at the frequency under use. A mirror on the other hand is >>>required to be OPAQUE with resp

Re: Attention to detail lacking

2001-07-26 Thread Petro
At 8:35 PM -0700 7/24/01, Tim May wrote: >At 8:24 PM -0700 7/24/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I think Choate is much like this tech of mine: Have you ever seen the two of them together? > >(Not that college physics is needed. I should hope not, I've got a Fine Art degree with

Attention to detail lacking

2001-07-25 Thread Jim Choate
On Tue, 24 Jul 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You stated that every photon interacts, loses energy and is re-emitted. Sure, it has it's momentum changed. Think about it. The photon comes in from one direction and is absorbed/interacts with the atoms. As a result they get re-emitted (reflected