[sdiy] Trying to establish confidence in my test equipment

[The Peasant]

Hello everyone,

I have not been reading SDIY mails for a few months now. The break has been 
very refreshing. So I started reading them again and I find the same old 
infighting as well as moronic pseudoscience bullsh!t posts like the one below. 
So I guess I will be signing off completely for a while, I do not know if I 
will be back. See you later, and thanks for the memories!!!

Take care,
Doug
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Quoting Bob Weigel <sounddoctorin at imt.net>:

> Magnetically induced currents.....there most certainly *IS* a measurable 
> voltage but it's not the result of shorting a capacitor or battery or 
> whatever across the leads.  It's due to some *other* current moving in a 
> medium with magnetic permeability.
> 
> In the case of a 'fixed magnet' even, it's actually a functional current 
> due to allignment of atomic structures in a lattice such that an 
> imbalanced number of spins in an atom like iron having an extra 
> unmatched electron spin in the outer orbital, are alligned to create a 
> net component of current at the 'edge' of the material.  Picture a bunch 
> of little wheels going around in a cross section of material.  Inside 
> the spins all cancel since the one below is moving opposite direction 
> the one above where they draw near each other.  However at the interface 
> there is something resembling..a conveyor belt of charge going around 
> the whole cross sections outer boundary.
> 
> Anyway a net movement of charge creates a magnetic field so there IS 
> SOMEWHERE a functional potential and in the fixed magnet very very 
> little resistance since this current is bound into the atomic 
> scturures!  The 'voltage' that induces this current is built into the 
> structure of the atom itself. 
> 
> I'm one of the kooks who believes that while it's very very efficient, 
> that there is an actual medium which we dont' understand which even 
> taxes such processes but sometimes at an immeasurable amount.  I believe 
> this for several reasons
> 
> * The abundance of red shift data on things far away...either we're kind 
> of the center of the universe and everything is moving away from us 
> (back to the middle ages we go eh? :-) ) OR EM, (eg. light) like any 
> other oscillation we observe in nature, loses some amount of energy to 
> the medium through which it propogates.  Our instruments possibly 
> haven't been sensetive enough to measure this until...
> 
> * in '98 a couple independent studies showed that some galaxies that are 
> far away seem to be..accelerating!! Now..I personally don't believe that 
> they are.  A whole galaxy accelerating?  We don't understand what would 
> cause this.  However if it is moving away fairly fast in those cases, 
> AND light fatigues...ahhhhh...now it starts to possibly make sense. I'm 
> trying to get the actual data and see if it correlates.  But very 
> likely..obviously..it will.  And we'll be able to actually finally 
> estimate how much light fatigues and how far off our estimates have been 
> due to the assumption that light doesn't fatigue at all.
> 
> There are some blue shifts out there.  That would mean they are moving 
> quite a bit faster towards us than we think.  And...we'll probably find 
> that...there is a distributions of matter that is a lot less extreme in 
> relative velocities than the majority of the science community save 
> myself and others who have proposed this for many years.. thought. 
> 
> This could also be applied at the atomic level if we can actually get 
> this information and assess it logically.  A friend of mine, btw.... 
> patented a rather interesting device that I'm under non-disclosure on.  
> But let me just say..hehe....it's going to make for some cool locking 
> mechanisms if nothing else.  -Bob
> 
> Antti Huovilainen wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Harry Bissell Jr wrote:
> >
> >> Woah.  Can you direct me to where you read that 'volt' is a derived
> >>  standard ???
> >
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volt#Definition
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampere#Definition
> >
> >>  I think it is the amp that is the derived standard... as it can only 
> >> exist as the action of the potential (volt) across a resistance (ohm).
> >
> >
> > What about magnetically induced currents or superconductivity?
> > In both cases the current is not due to potential across a resistance.
> >
> > Antti
> >
> > "No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow"
> >   -- Lt. Cmdr. Ivanova
> >
> >
>