-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 04:01 PM 2/18/96 -0800, Timothy C. May wrote:
At 9:28 PM 2/18/96, jim bell wrote:
I love to be picky about such things. Yes, I think bosons _DO_ interact with each other. Before all you physics nerds flame me, hear me out:
I won't "flame you," just correct you.
Hmmmm. Last thing I saw, you claimed you put me in your "killfile." Glad to see I'm off. (This makes me wonder why...) Hope I don't do anything else to offend you. B^)
It is well-known that photons are affected by gravitation...from the Mossbauer effect
Hey, you're a sharp guy! Not too many people are aware of the Mossbauer effect. I'll bet you read the same Scientific American article I did, decades ago. Here's a question: How hard is it to make a gamma detector? I'd like to experiment with the Mossbauer effect, but aside from the difficulty of obtaining the radioactive nuclides, I don't know to make a crystal detector. And is that the best an amateur could do?
to the bending of light by the sun (seen in eclipses) to the gravitational lensing effects.
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Thus, presumably photons self-gravitate, and thus, SOME bosons "interact," although admittedly this kind of interaction is a few dozen orders of magnitude lower than what you probably intended when you said "Bosons don't interact with each other at all."
What is being referred to is a term of art related to Bose-Einstein statistics (the origin of the term boson, as contrasted to fermions, which are affected by the Pauli Exclusion Principle, while bosons are not).
Yes, yes, yes, I know this stuff. But my pickiness was based on the fact that the term "interact" can vary over many orders of magnitude. For example, as I recall the ratio of the electrical repulsion between two protons exceeds the gravitational attraction by a factor of about 10**40. I just object to the use of the term "interact" in a cavalier way, as if quantum mechanical "interaction" was the only kind of interaction that "mattered." (no pun intended...well, maybe just a little.)
No list relevance that I can see, but then neither do nuclear triggers have anything to do with the list.
Okay, maybe not, but my idea is substantially better than anything I've heard published in the open lay press. I just heard from a friend that even that hack Clancy used krytrons and capacitors; my system would use _trivial_ components to do the timing. Jim Bell, N7IJS jimbell@pacifier.com Klaatu Burada Nikto -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMSe8AfqHVDBboB2dAQFUQwP/fcsCsqydcEFdxnBqWuFeFrqoumUtg5NR 5SSTPs1dX7SZ2A1eBNo1Up9JodqShnJtce464rrW7kleX5bHSGG5mY327D1X9+Nw O/UcI7yfKdHidUK7Z7YUn5zeBnZzVqsTStXPX4SECg8bfvo9Ey/OjEQ/bVi0Qi4C fiwJD8skIE4= =DaGm -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----