Jones Beene wrote:
Stephen
*Nothing* has been announced. I invite you to use your imagination.
He has no intention, nor obligation, to spell out details for you or
anyone else until there is absolute certainty; and at that time he
almost certainly will make the announcement elsewhere, due to the chilly
reception received here.
Yeah, we asked whether the signal generator was still turned in on Video
#7. That was rude of us.
In the meantime, and in the spirit of Halloween ;-) you have a few more
hours to dig your skeptastrophe-grave even deeper.
Jones, you do me a disservice.
All I have done, all along, is ask for definite statements as to what
power sources were actually present. Is that "pathological skepticism"?
(It may be _annoying_ -- I don't deny that. Asking repeatedly for
answers to questions people apparently don't want to reply to is often
annoying; I learned that during my brief and ill-starred career as a
hardware engineer.)
Oh, I also suggested measuring the power actually coming out of the
signal generator. How is that digging a "skeptastrophe grave"?
And I expressed opinions about the use of the cage, mostly to the effect
that arguments over whether it was adequately grounded were irrelevant
(it blocks radio signals whether or not it's grounded). And I agreed
with someone's suggestion, that grounding the circuit directly to the
cage would eliminate all conventional external fields as possible power
sources. Was that pathological skepticism?
As to this image -- You strongly implied the image showed the circuit
operating closed loop. So if that's the case, if it's operating
closed-loop, I'm asking why it's got external connections. Is that so
strange?
If you DON'T believe it's an image of a circuit operating closed-loop,
why did you make a big deal out of that image, and say we should all
smash the phrase "The loop has been closed" onto our foreheads?
As to my annoying tendency to ask about power sources ... after watching
video #7, and reading the transcript in which Dr. Stiffler said there
was a ground wire hooked up, but made NO MENTION of the signal
generator, and said NOTHING about the pan ... and after it turned out
the signal generator was actually running during that video, and was
apparently connected to the pan, which was, by his own measurements,
capacitively coupled to the breadboard, via about 31 pF between pan and
breadboard baseplate ... I think it's perfectly reasonable to ask about
things like the big red alligator clip, rather than just ASSUMING that
it's irrelevant.
OTOH - I find the image very interesting and provocative, even with the
caveats which you have mentioned.
Jones
