>Trust Wagner to find a snake in the grass.
>Wagner, If life was this complicated, we wouldn't get anything done!
>;-)
>
>Quentin
>"All we sense is vibration, nothing is material."


I'm surprised at the amount of shoddy engineering uncovered by Wagner's
innocent comments :-)

Anybody ever met eg 100mF capacitors on a circuit diagram.
What do you think they are?
Someone being shoddy with their units and using "m" for micro perhaps?
Put in a 100 micro-Farad capacitor in such a circuit and see how well it
works.
Quiz (no sample or even final answers available)(or guarantee of having got
it right in long form either) :-)

Correctly write in abbreviated form -
(all questions are worth O marks.)

100 meg Ohm
100 milli Ohm
100 milli Farad (aaah!).
100 micro Farad.

Even units names and proper (Proper?) names move on it seems.
We used to have 300 degrees K being about room temperature. Now its 300 k =
300 kelvins. Yes, plural, and the "degrees" and the capital letter has gone
so I guess therefore that this is no longer named after Lord K - just
happens to be a unit with the same name as him :-)

If we do not try to allow to let life be this complicated we will get more
done but it will more occasionally de done wrong.
Vibration? - Actually, everything is light or made thereof - I guess its
immaterial whether you consider this as electromagnetic vibration or as
particles :-)

Bonus questions - each worth O marks:

- How long does it take a "piece" of light to get from anywhere to anywhere
in the universe from its perspective?
- How big is the universe for all light?



regards

        Russell McMahon






(D0 y0u think that was a mistake?)