Successful TPU-ECD replication !

[Drossen]

@Feynman

When I first saw your question, I did not think I knew what quantum tunneling was.  After doing a search, I found that I have heard of it, but just did not know what they called it.  I also find it interesting.

If you find wave propagation interesting, here is a few interesting points.  It is believed that radio waves travel at the speed of light in a vacuum.  The speed of light is 299,792,458 Meters/Second, which is approximately 983,571,057.9254742 Feet/Second.  In one nanosecond, a radio wave will travel 0.9835710579254742 Feet.  I work at Southwest Research Institute, in the Signal Exploitation and Geolocation Division, and propagation time is very important to us as we need to know this for the systems we develop.  Through experimentation, it is known that signals do indeed propagate approximately one foot every nanosecond, both in the air and in a wire, though there are differences in velocity dependant on the dielectric constant of the propagation medium.  It is also known that the magnetic field generated on a wire does travel perpendicular with the flow of electrons, but also follows the direction of the flow of electrons.  As an analogy, lets say that there is a train moving down a railroad track, if an object were shot perpendicularly away from the train while the train is moving, the object would start out traveling both in the direction of the train, and at the same time traveling away from the train perpendicularly.  In this analogy, the railroad track is the propagation medium, the train is the electric field, and the object being shot out is the magnetic field.  Here is a good Java applet representing the propagation of the electric and magnetic fields:

http://www.phy.ntnu.edu.tw/ntnujava/index.php?topic=35

@zerotensor

I agree with your statement about needing to look at it in slow motion, especially when propagation time maybe a few nanoseconds or less.

Drossen

[sparks]

     @Fenyman

   Here is something to ponder,  I like your enthusiasm!  Say that the magnetic field is nothing more than a sign of the inertia of the charge carriers .Electricity is just flow of potential energy from one inertial field into another trying to balance inertia of the two fields.

[Feynman]

@sparks

I saw you posting these ideas before, and they are very original.  I'm sorry I can't make an educated comment because I don't understand inertial frames very well. . my broad understanding is that antiparticles are what let you put general relativity together with quantum electrodynamics.  And also magnetic fields are infinite potential energy because they are basically permanent dipoles pouring out seemingly static flux that came from virtual particle 'bubbling' (quantum foam, ala Wheeler). 

In your understanding, what do you consider charge carriers?  And also what inertia do you mean?  Would two magnets in close proximity be in the same inertial frame?  The last time I learned inertia it was with Newtonian mechanics. . Also, do you mean inertia of moving planetary bodies or inertia on a smaller (say, Planck) scale? 

Thanks,
all thoughts appreciated,
Feynman

[sparks]

@fenyman

      A charge carrier is the mass moving which has charge. In the electrical world we need to deal with everyday is the electron.  The inertia is just like any other mass inertia except that it carrys charge.  The permanent magnets are inertial frames we can pickup and move.  Same as picking up a car going 60 miles an hour  and a train going 90 miles an hour.   We can take the car and put it back down on the highway with it's inertia opposite the trains inertia or vice versa.

[Feynman]

@sparks
Thanks for the info.  Your descriptions of celestial bodies affecting magnetic inertial frames are fascinating, keep it up my friend. I wish I understood this better.

@all

So here's a little system I just designed.  The original idea is from GK, so he gets props.  I have added a different oscillator chip which has 1khz - 67Mhz frequency ability.  The chip also has rise time of 1ns, so it is VERY fast.  It is called the LTC6904 and it is the ferrari of oscillators.   Here is the design:



You could have as many oscillators as you want because the I2C bus supports addressing.  One arduino board can control multiple oscillator chips, because each oscillator chip has a different address.
 
Now the cool thing is you can use this system to brute force resonant frequencies by having the Arduino monitor feedback while it 'scans' your TPU. 

-Feynman