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Re: SNR calculations (was Re: setup.exe missing from FTP site)
On Thu, 31 May 2007, Charles Wilson wrote:
> Igor Peshansky wrote:
>
> > Even if the diagonal size wasn't less than the diameter of the hole,
> > my son, when he was 1 year old, usually just used a hammer.
> >
> > That, or assume that at the speed of light either the hole or the
> > photon will give...
>
> Nah, you guys are all wrong. A square photon is one whose oscillations
> follow a square-wave pattern rather than sinusoidal. Thus, by Fourier
> decomposition it can be shown that the square photon is actually
> composed of an infinite sequence of equal-or-higher-frequency "regular"
> sinusoidal ones. So: a square photon actually has /higher/ energy
> content than a regular photon with the same fundamental frequency: in
> the limit, it has infinite energy. Say, maybe we could harness one of
> these suckers to solve the world's greenhouse gas emission issues by
> eliminating dependence on hydrocarbons. Boy, Big Oil won't like that
> idea -- HEY -- WHO ARE YOU GUYS -- LET ME GO -- WHAT ARE YOU DOI
Well, you did manage, in the last desperate convulsion, to hit "Send". :-)
Igor
P.S. Ouch. I think a square photon just hit me on the side of the head...
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