Re: Speed of Light article

[Bob Sciamanda <trebor@VELOCITY.NET>]

Yes, John.  I recall this phenomenon written up somewhere (?) a few months
back.  The interpretation given then was in agreement with what you say
here.

Bob

Bob Sciamanda (W3NLV)
Physics, Edinboro Univ of PA (em)
trebor@velocity.net
http://www.velocity.net/~trebor

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Denker" <jsd@MONMOUTH.COM>
To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 5:35 PM
Subject: Re: Speed of Light article


> . . .The source starts emitting the
> front tail long before it starts emitting the peak of "the pulse".  If
your
> receiver responds to the front tail, it can respond before the peak
> arrives.  Given a nice high-Q emitter (so the pulse is narrow in
frequency
> and spread out in time) and a nice high-gain receiver, you can
anticipate
> peak-arrival by an enormous amount.
>
> As far as I can tell, this "discovery" has about the same intellectual
> content as my "discovery" that I can anticipate the arrival of the new
moon
> by watching the waning crescents.