Cecil Moore wrote:
Of course,
the disciplines of physics and engineering are certainly at
odds with one another.

That is nothing but an excuse for your own sloppy thinking.

When it comes down to fundamentals, physics and engineering must always
agree exactly - because they are both working with the same physical
reality. That is a bedrock principle, known and shared by all competent
physicists and all competent engineers.

There's a reason why they call these subjects "disciplines", you know.
Reality sets hard rules that you have to follow - or else you'll get it
wrong.

The only differences between physics and engineering are the
acknowledged and clearly understood approximations that each side has to
apply in order to follow its own particular interests. Physics is most
interested in knowing things, while engineering is most interested in
doing things - but neither to the exclusion of the other.

If your ideas cannot make the physics and engineering approaches agree,
it means that your ideas are wrong. That is a simple and completely
reliable test.

And it's strictly *your* problem.


--
73 from Ian G3SEK 'In Practice' columnist for RadCom (RSGB)
http://www.ifwtech.co.uk/g3sek