On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 06:17:54 -0500, Cecil Moore
wrote:

Richard Clark wrote:

wrote:
On what page in Chipman does the Source Z appear relevant?

You referenced equation 7.34.
What do you see appearing in the illustration on the page opposite?

Sorry, I don't see anything. I don't have the book. I drove over to
Texas A&M to see what equation 7.34 really looks like when it is not
forced into ASCII characters.

Then there is no reason to expect you have access to any other page
you asked me for is there? Such is the plight of speed reading.
Everyone selects their favorite passage in ignorance to the whole of
the work.

I have recited enough extractions (including, additionally, my
response to you above) to no refutation. I note that those who asked
for those same examples continue to embrace Chipman despite refusing
to observe his cautions and, frankly, you are less prepared than they
to engage in that discussion much less debate.

The only point of reciting the source is to establish a basis of
common ground. Without that, it devolves to the common sense that the
load and the source are interchangeable and both observe the same
mechanics of reflection that exist as a terminus to a line. Cecil, I
know that you have already stated as much. The quality (sic) of other
discussion that usually attends this issue from more than a few
correspondents, the source somehow deserves some special status where
it magically exhibits no loss, no gain, no reflection, total
reflection, and each-or-all uttered by those who go numb when asked
just what quantitative value enforces such mysterious actions they
purport to occur.

Some suggest it is the imponderability of nature and the cosmos;
others say confusion exists (but not in themselves - even when they
stumble to answer the simplest question); one suggests that methods
and accuracy are in doubt (and cannot say how much error, nor which
method is vague); many say it doesn't matter (and they rage on
demanding just that); and ALL of them cannot answer simple bench
examples that confound their myopic theories.

Such is the kulture of Institutionalized Ignorance that exists.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC