On May 8, 7:19 am, "Yuri Blanarovich" wrote:

He was born in Smiljan Lika, Serbia, Yugoslavia, studied at Carl University
in Prague. People know more about tinkerer Edison, than about greatest
engineering genius who gave us AC and so much.

You may be just a little biased when it comes to Tesla, but
understandably so. I am more of an enthusiast than a fanatic.

Seemed to me implied: "Yeah" = mickey-mouse universities in Yugoslavia (or
Eastern Eu).

It was a regretable choice. Cecil has that effect on me
occasionally. I did manage to control myself well enough to avoid
calling him a "guru" though. :-)

I wish I understood this obsession you and Cecil have with gurus. I
don't share it.

It is more like reaction to people who are sometimes wrong and chime in on a
subject with: "hey stupid, it can't be" - parading as omnipotent gurus,
instead of asking questions and discussing the matter inteligently and
either defending their position or admitting that maybe we were not so
stupid and they COULD be wrong, and learn and get better.

If only that were a two-way street.

What we perceive as "gurus" here, is a type of person who is wrong about the
subject, tends to get riding on a high horse putting down the opposition,
sometimes ridiculing and close minded to any, even elaborate explanation or
reasoning. Typically "guru" wants to have their last "right" word, even if
realizing that maybe they were wrong, never admitting or giving credit where
is due.

Evidently a matter of perception and partiality. Cecil has more 'last
words' on this newsgroup than any other contributer by an order of
magnitude, and fits the rest of your description to a tee.

Looks like too much Woodstock generation getting into engineering and
forcing their "truth" to be the only one standing (Global Warming). If often
enough repeated in politics, it catches on with halfbright worshippers, but
has no place in science.

'Current pileup' could be just such a phenomenon.

I am sorry that sometimes I get provoked and fire back in a like manner, but
when someone is trying to convince me that RF is behaving like DC current,
when I got burned my fingers on the bottom of the loading coil, then I just
react in kind.

Do I stand accused of trying to convince you that RF behaves like DC?
I'm not sure that's entirely fair. I so admit to discouraging belief
that RF behaves like magic.

Even if sometimes discussions get tangled here, because some just can't, or
don't want to get it, I am gratefull to those involved, because they bring
some points, that I would have not paid attention to and missed important
link in the chain of knowledge on the subject.

Another outcome is, that some subjects in current literature are not all
that properly described and warrant more detailed explanation and proof to
get corrected, and some discussions here shed some light at it and
highlinght need for more down to earth tutorial to set the record straight.

That's pretty much how I feel about it. I think it helps to keep an
open mind and consider all of the relevant facts.

73, Jim AC6XG