Subject: Re: (urth) Father Inire's Mirrors and Wolfe Physics
From: Josh Geller 
Date: 19 Aug 2003 12:41:34 -0700

On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 11:57, Tony Martinez wrote:
> [ I've assumed you didn't CC the list so as not to murder half of it's
>   readers with dry technical discussion, so haven't followed up
>   there. ]

More like I forgot. I don't think they'd mind, I assume you don't 
mind, and so I am Cc'ing the list now. What the heck, I say.

>>>> You'd want a tunable laser.
 
>>> Could you elaborate a little? (I don't remember all this stuff that
>>> well!)  Is this to modulate the signal, i.e. achieve different speeds?

>> Right.

> Ah.  Perhaps it's a binary transmission, that is, the mirrors set up
> the monochromatic (FTL) light source, and some other bit handles the
> rest (binary, perhaps, rather than modulation?).

I sure don't know.

>> There's another thing about mirrors. Time's a direction at right
>> angles to the three we know about. You get lots of funny angles with
>> multiple mirrors.  
 
> Heheheh!  I wonder what shaving with them would be like :)

A bit of excitement with the straight razor every morning.

Who *does* shave the Spanish barber?

>           Thanks for the clarification,

You are generous!








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