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In Reply to: Re: Mr. Chip, final round? posted by jbmcb on May 25, 2005 at 10:37:32:

The chances that laser light being reflected off a room boundary remains coherent are zero. That's one cornerstone of Geoff's building which fails. He simply uses too many assumptions (leaky box, coherent light, EIT in solids). His building is way too fragile to withstand the slightest breeze.
It would be interesting to know Johns' and Clark's opinion (both degreed physicists) on that explanation. Clark did not want accept me as partner in his bet, maybe because he knew that he would loose.
Klaus

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it's probably a joke - tunenut 10:09:29 05/26/05 (3)
The more I thought about this white paper, the more I concluded it must be deliberate parody. To invoke electromagnetically induced transparency, which MAY occur in certain solids at close to zero degrees K, to claim that it is happening in polycarbonate at room temperature. And to further claim that it is induced not by carefully calibrated and aimed lasers, but by randomly scattered photons...it is obviously absurd. Oh and also to claim that the effect persists after the photons are gone and to invoke poor Schrodinger's cat once again. It's got to be a joke.
- Probably????nt.. - jneutron 10:30:17 05/26/05 (0)
  tunenut: ""The more I thought about this white paper""
  Why do you waste your time thinking about that?
  tunenut: ""To invoke electromagnetically induced transparency, which MAY occur in certain solids at close to zero degrees K""
  Hmmm..that's kinda outside my realm of experience...I've not gone below 1.88 Kelvin..my 200 HP vac pump pair couldn't get the dewar below 11 mm absolute pressure..I think the lambda plate was leaking a coupla milliwatts from the 4.5 K liquid helium..ya know, ya just can't get good lambda plates nowadays...:-)
  Course, none of the materials in the dewar, the transfer lines, or the superconducting magnet suddenly became transparent..unless you consider saturated iron in a 7 tesla background field as magnetically "transparent"..but I will be the first to admit, we didn't have a leaky CD player running on top of the dewar...THAT's where we went wrong..I figured the niobium titanium supers would have enough niobium to do that "quantum" thingy...
  tunenut: ""It's got to be a joke.""
  This has been evident from day one...welcome..
  Cheers, John
- The Schrodinger's Cat Explaination - jbmcb 10:25:00 05/26/05 (1)
  Of course! It all makes sense now. The 'chip works *because* nobody knows how it works. Once you figure it out, you've interferred with it's operation, and it won't work anymore.
  It's kind of like the Infinite Improbability Drive in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, it works because it can't work, and the less likely it is that it works, the better it works.
  Quantum Physics can explain anything!
  
  /*Music is subjective. Sound is not.*/
  - Re: The Schrodinger's Cat Explaination - toxicport.e 16:40:43 06/02/05 (0)
    I bet the designer is laughing all the way to the bank due to the predicament :P
    Quantum Physics can explain anything!
    When I started reading about quantum physics I wasnt comforted at all !

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