Re: A Digital Filter

From: Gregory L. Hansen (glhansen_at_steel.ucs.indiana.edu)
Date: 07/28/04 

Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 13:33:37 +0000 (UTC)

In article <10gds7c5uqai7c2@corp.supernews.com>,
Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>John Woodgate wrote:
>> I read in sci.electronics.design that Gregory L. Hansen <glhansen@steel.
>> ucs.indiana.edu> wrote (in <ce6fmi$o0u$1@hood.uits.indiana.edu>) about
>> 'A Digital Filter', on Tue, 27 Jul 2004:
>>
>>
>>>"The main, if not the only, function of the word aether has been to
>>>furnish a nominative case to the verb 'to undulate'."
>>> -- the Earl of Salisbury, 1894
>>
>>
>> It's nouns and pronouns that have a nominative case; verbs have a first
>> person ('I undulate'). The Earl was a journalist and politician; he was
>> Prime Minister in a succession of Conservative governments. Curious.
>
>The point being, I take it, that 'aether' is a nonsense noun, whose only
>function is grammatical--something with a nominative case has to be there to
>be the subject of the verb.

I'm not up on my grammar rules, I'm not even sure what a nominative case
is. But I added that quote after observing extensive discussions in
another newsgroup about how physics is in a sorry state because it lacks
the physical cause that they identify with the aether. All it does is
present a different set of unanswered questions, a different set of
postulates that must simply be assumed true, except it's a step away from
the observable. You might try to continue the work of 19th century
physics in trying to explain Maxwell's equations in terms of swirling
vortices, donut-shaped disturbances, and a fluid that has every form of
fluid behavior except longitudinal waves and has just the properties
needed to create a relativity principle, but in the end you still have
Maxwell's equations, Lorentz covariance, and a principle of relativity.
And no a priori reason to apply Lorentz covariance to the nuclear forces. 

-- 
"In any case, don't stress too much--cortisol inhibits muscular
hypertrophy. " -- Eric Dodd

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