John Smith wrote:
"Nwxt there is no such thing as "time!"

Well, the illusion called time is useful in physics, navigation, etc. It
gives some people something to sell.

Man has struggled desperately to measure time sccurately through much of
history.

The cesium beam atomic clock is about the best standard now. First
produced by the U.S. NIST in 1952 as NBS-1.

England`s National Physical Laboratory atomic clock is accurate to one
second in 1000 years.

Best regards, Richard Harrison, KB5WZI

No. This is all about measuring movement, and constantly improving the
accuracy thereof...

Rather than saying, "One hour has passed", you should be saying,
"one-twenty-fourth of a revolution of the Earth has occured." Well, take
your pick, they are both the same...

Regards,
John

Another way of thinking of this might be, "Everything has a direct
relationship to the revolution of the Earth"--this relationship we will call
"time", the birth/age/death cycle of life, the rise and decay of mountains,
the movement of all heavenly bodies, the radio bursts of a pulsar, the speed
of light, an object attracted by gravity, the spreading apart of the
universe, etc, etc....

Regards,
John

John Smith wrote:

Another way of thinking of this might be, "Everything has a direct
relationship to the revolution of the Earth" ...

Even the Big Bang which occurred billions of *years* before
"the revolution of the Earth" ever existed. :-)
--
73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp


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Yes, we have a precise measurement of that exact moment!!! (when the Earth
began its' first revolution!!!)

Ahhh, you can tell I am joking--it took a few "revolutions" for the Earth to
form... and at that time--back then--we were actually measuring time in
"planet formings" (PF) and "birth of stars" (BOS) any way, we only switched
to the new system in the upper B.C. period of Earth. grin

Warmest regards,
John

Last night I had a dream...

I snuck out to investigate a large and strange building on the outskirts of
the city, this building covered four city blocks!
When I peeked in one window, I seen two vaccume tubes, each was the size of
house!
The window was cracked, though the crack I overheard two engineers talking,
one must have been new, as the other was explaining to him that the equip
was a 100 megawatt xmitter! It was a 60 cycle transmitter. He pointed to
the rear of the tubes, at a LARGE balun which fed lines leaving the
building. He explained that the balun was properly loaded when a certain
voltage was on the plates, and there was a large, variable dummy load which
controlled the voltage on the plates, and that the input power could also be
varied, as this xmitter was used as a "constant voltage souce."
The lines which left the building went to supply homes with the transmitter
power. At each home the power was consumed by many individual "baluns",
which matched the impedance of the line to a device on the secondary of the
balun. Also, many dummy loads (light bulb, resistance heating devices,
etc.) existed in these homes. And, there were even devices who's impedance
matched that of the lines directly, but contained additional resistance to
limit the current they consumed...

Then I woke up!!! grin

Regards,
John

vacuum even!!!!

john

.. Usually, I reread posts, the above-I did not, I am sure you noticed.

Such as where the constant voltage on the plates should have said, "Constant
voltage on the secondary of the balun" etc.

But, overlook the errors; you'll get the jest of it.



Regards,

John

Errr, notice in the above thread, to my favor, I DID say "jest" and NOT
"gist" !!!

grin

Warmest regards,
John

Hi John,

You are thinking too much.

You sound clinically obsessive/manic in your overly expansive ideations that you appear to (truly) believe are NOT overly expansive at all, but rather are incredibly brilliant insights, or observations and ideas, that you feel absolutely MUST be shared with all of us --- immediately. The basis for that type of behavior has been studied and written about more than, dare I say, even the Balun. Take a break from it all. Stop talking to US about these things, because we aren't the ones you need. Talk to someone one-on-one that can help you out.

Regards,
--- Rob

John Smith wrote:

Let me give you my "Mental Model."

There is no such thing as "cold."
There is no such thing as "heat." (there is infrared radiation--i.e. a
frequency(s) of vibration of atoms)
Cold is the absence of heat, absolute cold (absolute zero) is a single
measurement of one state of heat (vibration/movement of atomic
particles)--NONE!
Heat (hot) is really a measurement of the state of exicted atomic/sub-atomic
particles movement, and of that movement producing "heat" through the
friction produced by the movement of these atomic particles...

Next, there is no such thing as "time!" Time is simply a measurement of
movement! Indeed, our time is based on the rotation of the sun and
planets... (atomic time on the decay of a radioactive substance--but again,
physical change and movement!)

I realize that specific "mental models" have been created, taught, adopted
and followed (too religiously if you ask me!) for discussing and describing
"radio." However, most of these are far from "real things!"

Warmest regards,
John