At 7:05 PM -0700 7/27/01, David Honig wrote:
At 02:43 PM 7/27/01 -0500, drs wrote:
Let me suggest that everyone defer to "Classical Electrodynamics" by Jackson, as a definitive reference. It's the canonical physics text on
Tim May has also suggested Jackson. What flavor of anarcho-radical subversive discontent is Jackson?
Jackson, who probably is not still alive, would laugh uproariously at Choate's notion that a photon which strikes/scatters off of a surface loses some of its energy through some kind of ohmic dissipation of energy in the target. See my other article, a few minutes earlier than this one. This "drs" character has apparently learned in his kolletch classes that saying "You're both wrong" is the path toward harmony. Fucking twit. --Tim May -- Timothy C. May tcmay@got.net Corralitos, California Political: Co-founder Cypherpunks/crypto anarchy/Cyphernomicon Technical: physics/soft errors/Smalltalk/Squeak/agents/games/Go Personal: b.1951/UCSB/Intel '74-'86/retired/investor/motorcycles/guns