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The Myth of Radio Spectrum Interference
Selanit writes "Just came across a fascinating article on Salon about a technologist who claims that there is no such thing as "interference" in the radio spectrum. He argues that interference is a symptom of inadequate equipment, not a fact of nature, and that with improved transceivers we could open the spectrum up to high-quality broadcasts by anyone. Reference is made to the GNU Radio Project. Neat stuff." We've posted other stories about this. I wonder if the "color" meme will catch on.
I know a physicist who claims that pi is in fact rational. He claims that the only reason we don't realize it yet is because of the current limitations of our circle measuring devices.
Kan jeg få en pils, vær så snill?
From the article:
Pantone may own the standard numbers by which digital designers refer to colors, but only the FCC can give you an exclusive license to a color itself.
So I could patent the wavelength of a colour of my choosing, and claim royalties every time someone uses a colour that matches my wavelength? Now there's a way to get rich quick...
Except people wearing clothes using your colour could run away from you really quickly and cause red shift:
"See? It's not the same as your colour. It's very slightly more red. You can't sue me!"
While living in Hartford, CT, I used to listen to AM880 (out of NYC, a distance of about 200 miles) from my car. Whenever I stopped at a particular traffic light, the hum in the background got louder. When the light turned green, the hum got lower. After a while I was able to tell when the light turned green without even looking at it.
http://github.com/gbook/nidb
Prof. Frink: "A-hem, um, ahem! Excuse me!....Pi is exactly 3!!"
Audience: "HUH?!? WHAT?!?"
Prof. Frink: "Sorry I had to do that, but now that I have your attention..."
Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion.
and at MIT of all places?
I went to a demo of `instruments of the future` they put on in london. It looked like the sort of crap you`d come up with if you`d left your degree course until the last minute, got really stoned and said `lets take a keyboard....but remove the keys and make it so the angle you hold it at changes the pitch`. Yeah, but how do you play it? How do you reproduce a melody. "ah...you...move it around, see....and then..."
Not that I don't like making waves. . .
Ouch! No pun intended, I hope?
!#@%*)anks for hanging up the phone, dear.
I had always suspected that pi would be rational, if not in denary (decimal), then in another base.
Binary octal and hex don't appear to be too promising, but I now realize the answer:
Base pi
Heck, it might even work in base e or base i
""Photons, whether they are light photons, radio photons, or gamma-ray photons, simply do not interfere with one another,""
I see somebody skipped out on their physics lab on "Michelson-Morley interferomoter" day. I wonder how he thinks we measured the speed of light...
Oh. great I can see it now, radio software crashes right in the middle of my favorite program. No thanks I'll stick with my crystal set.
"Technology.....the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it." Max Firsch
Send this guy on over to my shop. I'll start by putting him in my 911 center. Then he can either convince my bosses of what he says or he can help me fight the interference that is driving me nuts.
Sounds like this guy could use some experience in the real world anyway. Not that I disagree with him, just that I think the world he lives in is a perfect, wonderful, simple place that is not this world.
. Quit playing Monopoly with Bill. Switch to one of many non-Microsoft products today.