Richard Clark wrote:
Einstein having "changed" what "is" understood of gravity from Newton's
teachings does not invalidate Newton's work

I entirely agree, Richard! (Don't be too surprised :-)

By quantifying the errors in Newton's original 'laws', Einstein actually
*confirmed* that Newtonian mechanics are valid for everyday situations.
The only way Einstein could have found that out was by exploring beyond
Newton, and then looking back.

That's exactly what we're trying to do with the present discussions
about lines with reactive Zo. We're trying to quantify the errors in the
formulae and definitions that we normally use, and we can only do that
by exploring beyond them... very carefully.


--
73 from Ian G3SEK 'In Practice' columnist for RadCom (RSGB)
Editor, 'The VHF/UHF DX Book'
http://www.ifwtech.co.uk/g3sek

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 23:05:56 +0100, "Ian White, G3SEK"
wrote:
That's exactly what we're trying to do with the present discussions
about lines with reactive Zo. We're trying to quantify the errors in the
formulae and definitions that we normally use, and we can only do that
by exploring beyond them... very carefully.

Hi Ian,

Too much is given to care, and too little is given to error.

It must have been months ago that this issue of a forced error was
revealed to occur in frequencies of absolutely no interest to the
Amateur for RF Power distribution.

From then on its been a simple ego struggle postured in high tea drama
to give some civil appearance to this tarted up "care." Given no one
has actually said anything original, nor different (and where news of
a virus eclipses this for technical discussion) it proves tedious
without mention of that same discussion of error that would illuminate
the sham in stark relief.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC