In Reply to: Re: the doctors warned me there'd be days like this posted by john curl on October 16, 2002 at 10:48:13:
##Keep an open mind, John Es.##Always do, its a good thing.
##Read an up-to-date textbook like Fromhold. Buy the book, it's a cheap Dover paperback that is 20 years old, but I think that it is available.##
Up to date and yet 20 years old? When I want current, I'll walk down the hall to my collegues, the ones that write the books.
##Welcome to the world of real physics!##I live the real world of physics. Superconducting magnets, relativistic heavy ion colliders, polarized protons, x-ray wiggler derived beams, 20 tesla MRI's, SOTA superconductors, liquid helium, 11 axis motion control magnet winding with 3 meter long tubes and 300 microinch wire placement accuracies, 7000 amp cryogenic diodes, 30,000 amp power supplies, 200 picosecond pulses (I'm not yet involved in the femptosecond stuff). And that's only work I'm directly responsible for. You should see the other stuff around here.
##This is where the action appears to be, not in the approximations that you use every day to make your computer work.##You seem to have an erroneous view of what I do. I do not use approximations in any of my work, and we have lower level ITD people to make my computer work, or at least keep the hackers out (National labs seem to have a bullseye marking on their network). At home, I have my 9 year old son to do that.
##Maybe, you too, can contribute to this website with your newfound knowledge.##
So far, I've only corrected you on one of your errors, that of confusing fermi velocity with electron drift velocity. An easily made error, as the test you quoted had an ambiguous definition. And that knowledge is not newfound, but something I remembered from '74. Perhaps you missed that class. (Sorry, that was a cheap shot, but I felt I should at least have one comment consistant with the intent of your post.)
But boy, correct you once, and you opened up the attack floodgate.
I've no intention of sparring with you at any level, intellectual or technical. If you felt I had, I apologize.
Cheers, John
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- Tisk Tisk - John Escallier 10/16/0212:35:43 10/16/02 (35)
- Re: Tisk Tisk - Steve Eddy 14:32:26 10/16/02 (0)
- Re: Tisk Tisk - alan m. kafton 13:45:23 10/16/02 (33)
- Still need credentials? - Penguin 19:14:58 10/16/02 (13)
- Re: Still need credentials? - John Escallier 20:21:34 10/16/02 (1)
- Your dirty little secrets are safe with us :-) - Penguin 20:27:44 10/16/02 (0)
- RAT!!!(nt) - John Escallier 20:09:24 10/16/02 (6)
- John You are fine engineer but no ornitologist... - Penguin 20:21:36 10/16/02 (3)
- Re: John You are fine engineer but no ornitologist... - John Escallier 20:25:27 10/16/02 (2)
- On a more serious note, - Penguin 20:31:46 10/16/02 (1)
- Yes. - John Escallier 20:41:50 10/16/02 (0)
- You should not have used your real name as a moniker. - Penguin 20:18:05 10/16/02 (1)
- Re: You should not have used your real name as a moniker. - John Escallier 20:47:11 10/16/02 (0)
- Re: Still need credentials? - Steve Eddy 19:43:16 10/16/02 (3)
- Re: Still need credentials? - John Escallier 19:51:33 10/16/02 (1)
- Re: Still need credentials? - Steve Eddy 20:12:07 10/16/02 (0)
- Shucks, that requires a 10th grade education right? :-) (nt) - Penguin 19:47:48 10/16/02 (0)
- Re: Tisk Tisk - John Escallier 14:12:24 10/16/02 (18)
- Re: Tisk Tisk - john curl 15:15:09 10/16/02 (17)
- 10'th grade - John Escallier 17:03:05 10/16/02 (2)
- Re: 10'th grade - Steve Eddy 17:30:05 10/16/02 (1)
- Your killin me. Your killin me. (nt) - John Escallier 17:33:58 10/16/02 (0)
- What is the problem here? - John Escallier 16:47:34 10/16/02 (12)
- Re: What is the problem here? - john curl 19:36:11 10/16/02 (11)
- Much easier post to deal with - John Escallier 20:05:18 10/16/02 (2)
- Re: Much easier post to deal with - Steve Eddy 20:25:15 10/16/02 (1)
- OK, ok - John Escallier 21:10:50 10/16/02 (0)
- Re: What is the problem here? - Steve Eddy 19:53:02 10/16/02 (7)
- Re: What is the problem here? - john curl 20:37:50 10/16/02 (4)
- Re: What is the problem here? - Steve Eddy 22:13:53 10/16/02 (3)
- Re: What is the problem here? - john curl 22:34:07 10/16/02 (2)
- Re: What is the problem here? - Steve Eddy 23:26:46 10/16/02 (1)
- Re: What is the problem here? - Phil Tower 04:06:58 10/17/02 (0)
- Re: So what...... - alan m. kafton 20:14:47 10/16/02 (1)
- Re: So what...... - John Escallier 20:29:12 10/16/02 (0)
- Re: Tisk Tisk - Steve Eddy 16:16:43 10/16/02 (0)