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• Niobium, Redherringium, Whateverium - Al Sekela 13:52:29 04/05/05 (3)
  In Reply to: Re: Niobium in arrays? posted by geoffkait on April 5, 2005 at 10:41:34:

  Optical properties of the GSIC are irrelevant unless there is some way to get light of appropriate wavelengths out of and into a working CD player.

  Tunneling is irrelevant, since it applies only to particles confined with very narrow (sub-nanometer) barriers.

  CD player case materials are opaque and stop **ALL** (to whatever engineering approximation you like) light of the near infrared and visible wavelengths.

  This leaves leakage through gaps in the casework and entry port. If the GSIC depends on flaws in the CD player construction in order to function, then you should say so up front.
  
  

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  • CD uses Class 1 laser... - KlausR. 22:15:58 04/05/05 (0)
    In Reply to: Niobium, Redherringium, Whateverium posted by Al Sekela on April 5, 2005 at 13:52:29:

    which is of no harm to the human eye, eyelid closure reflex being sufficient to avoid any possible damage.

    IF the chip is activated by CD laser, the laser beam MUST leave the CDP at some point. Did you ever place you head really close to the CDP and see whether the eyelid-closure reflex is triggered?

    What is even more unbelievable is that the chip can be activated with the chip being placed on top or underneath the CDP! How does laser light manage to pass through solid material (plastic, metal) when it can be stopped by your eyelid. Central question, still not answered by Geoff, John, Clark.

    
    Klaus
    
    

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  • Re: "GSIC depends on flaws in ...construction" - geoffkait 14:35:43 04/05/05 (1)
    In Reply to: Niobium, Redherringium, Whateverium posted by Al Sekela on April 5, 2005 at 13:52:29:

    I didn't say that, you did. Looks like a straw man argument to me.

    Puzzling, aint it?
    
    

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    • Infrared energy - KlausR. 00:13:26 04/06/05 (0)
      In Reply to: Re: "GSIC depends on flaws in ...construction" posted by geoffkait on April 5, 2005 at 14:35:43:

      Photons at IR or NIR have energies in the keV range. This energy is sufficient to cause photoelectric and photovoltaic effects (that's where the Q-dots are actually (also) used). Please elucidate how these effects work on a CD's surface?

      Klaus
      
      

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