Re: Imaginary reality

[brian whatcott <inet@INTELLISYS.NET>]

My non-verbal faculty was indicating with the assurance it sometimes offers
(and which some people are at a loss to label other than as 'an
intuition'), that besides the crystallographic inhomogeneities, there are
other, perhaps  many dimensions of extension which could as well be
labelled 'complex' as  the orthodox loss versus losslessness and
polarization, phase transcendence business.

 But to come down to Earth, the immediate image was the variation of
several electrical quantities with frequency, and specifically the perverse
behavior of some dielectrics when capacitors are checked with
microwavesignals - kinks not due to  ordinary electromagnetic resonances.

Brian W


At 15:19 4/24/00 -0700, Bernard Cleyet wrote:
> You're referring to anisotropic media?
>
> bc

> > > Remember, also, that indices of refraction are complex!
> > > bc
> >
> > Complex in more than one imaginary axis.
brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>
Altus OK