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Hmmm

I followed your link Ed and had a good look at the stuff on there including some entertaining youtube video’s.

So the EmDrive has passed peer review and has indeed been granted a patent. Lots of people are now taking it seriously too.

But…

Much as I would love it to be a new discovery to the world physics I just can’t  believe it at the moment.

If they can build one that produces an amount of power that is beyond dispute then I will think again.

Can’t wait to be proved wrong ?

 

 

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I nearly did forget the EmDrive Ed but I have now looked it up.

Err. I dont think so.

It looks very much like a single cavity version of a Klystron and they have been around for donkey’s years.

The device would also break Newtons laws on the conservation of momentum by efectivley giving you something for nothing

While I was looking this up though I found the Wiki entry for quantum vacum. Have a look at that and see what you think. I think there may be hope for a gravity drive yet !

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Here is a question

A photon enters your eye and is detected when it hits your retina.

I am assuming the photon gives up its energy during the impact so you can detect it but what happens to the photon ?

 

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Yes Bob photons ARE light and these things are smaller.

I would not DARE to quertion Eignsteign about the behaviour of normal sized matter ?

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A fix has beed posted at the bottom of Ed’s link but most people should be fine anyway. No problems with the two systems I have done.

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I just read on the forbes.com web site that they have been told by a Microsoft spokesman that this is a bug. The bug relates to a new Windows feature called Windows features on demand and will be fixed in due course.

When ever that is ?

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I forgot to mention the second part of my thinking on waves and also quantum (sub atomic) strangeness..

If space IS full of static sub atomic particles then all waves can be compression waves. All water waves are compression waves and you only get to see the classic sinusodal shape at the boundry between two medium, in this case air and water.

This may explain why quantum energy seems to travel in packets. Really haven’t looked into this though.

The other thing is these things are smaller than photons and really must travel faster than light to carry the energy they do.

Traveling faster than light may explain why things appear to be in two places when you try to look at them with photons and also that bit about just looking at them destroying the effect.

As before just a thought ?

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Im with Einstein on this one. Best to look for a simple explination. Look at the early astronomers who came up with complicated equasions and tables to explain the movements of some strange stars they saw in the sky. If you follow their methods you get the right results but for all the wrong reasons !

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And I thought my idea was unique ?

I have a theory two about waves as well though.

As was mentioned above I too have a distrust of magic forces made of nothing.

I am going to propose then that all waves need a medium to move through.

This would mean that we are surrounded by static photons and electronagnetic particles that we cannot detect until we put some energy into them.

I also think that like with water and air these particles do not have to move in waves, you can just shoot them like with a water pistol.

I know you can just shoot an electron and they say you can shoot a single photon.

Gravity waves would be easier to explain if space is full of gravity particles.

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I have a sneaking susspision that gravity may be a high energy sub atomic particle that is actually PUSHING me onto the earth.

My theory is that empy space is actually full of gravity particles flying around in all directions.

If you were in open space then gravity would be mostly passing through you from all sides but enough of it would hit your atoms to generate an equal force in all directions.

In open spase you would appear weightless because of the equal force but get near a massive object like a planet and it would act like a gravity shield on one side.

The resault would be you would be pushed towards the planet just like it was attracting you.

By the way this is something I thought up when I was alone and drunk ?

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In general if the games you play seem to run fine then I would say leave the GPU at stock settings. But if the game you want to play, with the setting you want to use, only manages 24 fps and you want to get that closer to 30 then you may have some luck with overclocking.

I have an AMD RX480 so I am not familiar with the latest NVIDIA software but I usually start with any presets provided and work up slowly from there.

Normally I try to get the memory as fast as I can without artifacting then move onto the GPU.

For specific settings have a look online for what others have done.

Good luck ?

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I did mean you were LUCKY to have the springs JayCee. I had screw caps and wood screws.

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Oops try again

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You had spring clips JayCee ?

Here is a pic of the book I still have. Wood screws and all !

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You have a point Ed

At the time I was doing part 1 of a City & Guilds 224 in radio and TV electronics and part of the practical exam was to solder up a tag board. Another part was soldering a simple circuit on Vero board.

We used a small tipped 15W iron but it was still a pain.

On the other hand we used bread boards for a lot of our class work.

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Another chip in the 8 bit Atari’s was a standard motorola GPIO. This was wired out to the joystick ports and was fully software programable for input or output.

At the time I connected up a couple of my own project boards and wondered why nobody else seemed interested.

Now we have the raspery Pi and people rave about it ?

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The people who did the Amiga chips are the same ones who designed the custom chips in the Atari 8 bits.

I still have the hardeware reference notes for the Atari’s complete with detailed fold out curcuit diagrams.

People may have heard of the ANTIC and GTIA display chips but the busiest of the lot was POKEY (potentiomiter/keyboard)

This chip contained the keyboard controler, 8 channel analogue to digital converter for reading the paddle controlers, 4 variable timers with interrupt ability, IRQ control, and 4 channel sound !

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Hi Craig

Can you please let me know if the disk you are having trouble with is a seperate data disk or a partition on your main disk.

Also im assuming your PC does actually boot so could you also tell me what version of Windows its running

Ta

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Don’t know about a flat earth but i may be able to help with the maths.

Just draw a line from the middle of your line of sight to the center of the earth to form 2 right angle triangles.

Now use the pythagarus sum of the squares rule to get the length of your new line.

Subtract the length of your line fron the radious of the earth and bingo.

I get 6 meters on my calculator ?

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You could try just Waxoiling them. That covers your a and b but it is not really a finish.

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