This explains the "Casimir Effect:"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashmir_effect

This indicates that a sound method has been discovered to manipulate it:
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/21...ack-levitation

Now, one can only speculate as to whether this will have possible
effects on the design/implementation of future antennas ... or possibly
lead to the "discovery" of new/"previously unknown" laws/forces which
have been in play and beyond our vision.

Regards,
JS

"John Smith I" wrote in message
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This explains the "Casimir Effect:"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashmir_effect

This indicates that a sound method has been discovered to manipulate it:
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/21...ack-levitation

Now, one can only speculate as to whether this will have possible
effects on the design/implementation of future antennas ... or possibly
lead to the "discovery" of new/"previously unknown" laws/forces which
have been in play and beyond our vision.

Regards,
JS

John

So you tie an antenna wire to a gecko and get it to run up the nearest tall
object? :-)

Mike G0ULI

Mike Kaliski wrote:

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So you tie an antenna wire to a gecko and get it to run up the nearest tall
object? :-)

Mike G0ULI

So? Your claim is the Casimir Effect only has domain over atomic sized
particles and "possibly" larger? Interesting, I would take your bet ...
if it affects atomic sized particles, it will be found to affect
smaller; and bigger, I wonder? But, apparently, that/those questions
are being posed ...

Regards,
JS

Mike Kaliski wrote:


So you tie an antenna wire to a gecko and get it to run up the nearest tall
object? :-)

Mike G0ULI

Yanno? Come to think of it, if they really do have a crashed alien
craft or two, and are reverse engineering 'em, you'd just have to expect
something like this to develop somewhere at sometime; wouldn't ya? grin

Regards,
JS

"John Smith I" wrote in message
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Mike Kaliski wrote:


So you tie an antenna wire to a gecko and get it to run up the nearest
tall
object? :-)

Mike G0ULI

Yanno? Come to think of it, if they really do have a crashed alien
craft or two, and are reverse engineering 'em, you'd just have to expect
something like this to develop somewhere at sometime; wouldn't ya? grin

Regards,
JS

Nah, the old methods are the best.
1. Attach antenna wire to gecko.
2. Get your gecko to climb as high as needed.
3. Key up with a kilowatt.
4. Antenna is now secured with lossy carbon resistor for a lovely wide
bandwidth.
Simple.

Geckos have had sticky but dirt resistant feet for millennia. There was an
announcement over a year ago that some new plastic compound had been
developed to duplicate the effect. It all relies on the attraction between
closely spaced molecules. I guess someone needed to find a method of peeling
it off after it had stuck firmly. Applying an electromagnetic field in the
correct manner would break the atomic level attraction between the
materials. Don't know how the geckos do it though. Maybe they have a charge
generator like an electric eel?

Mike G0ULI

Mike Kaliski wrote:

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Mike G0ULI

Well, I guess it is possible--the aliens could be stealing our
technology; in much the same way as, we collect artifacts of primitive
cultures ...

Regards,
JS

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Mike Kaliski michael.kaliski(remove wrote:

Nah, the old methods are the best.
1. Attach antenna wire to gecko.
2. Get your gecko to climb as high as needed.
3. Key up with a kilowatt.
4. Antenna is now secured with lossy carbon resistor for a lovely wide
bandwidth.

Is that... roasted newt?!?!?

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On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 09:08:07 -0700, John Smith I
wrote:

This explains the "Casimir Effect:"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashmir_effect

This indicates that a sound method has been discovered to manipulate it:
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/21...ack-levitation

Remember Pons and Fleishman?

Now, one can only speculate as to whether this will have possible
effects on the design/implementation of future antennas ... or possibly
lead to the "discovery" of new/"previously unknown" laws/forces which
have been in play and beyond our vision.


Gad, just what we need is more existential fodder for Arthur (except
you leaped to an antenna connection before he could opine "throw away
the text books").

Future nano antennas? At this scale, there is nothing so amusing as
those in, over their heads. It may shock many to discover that
resonance becomes decoupled from scaling at this -um- scale. This
isn't your dad's quarterwave monopole anymore.

Another message from Western Union, the Casimir effect was well known
CENTURIES ago to sailors. It was only myopic scientists who
re-discovered it under their microscope and put a label to it in spite
of this common knowledge.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

Richard Clark wrote:
Another message from Western Union, the Casimir effect was well known
CENTURIES ago to sailors. It was only myopic scientists who
re-discovered it under their microscope and put a label to it in spite
of this common knowledge.

Centuries ago it was nearly impossible for sailors to find anyone who
would publish their nanoelectronics research.

:-)
ac6xg

Jim Kelley wrote:

Centuries ago it was nearly impossible for sailors to find anyone who
would publish their nanoelectronics research.

:-)
ac6xg

Jim:

I am busting a gut here, the humor is greatly appreciated.

Regards,
JS