Re: Is electromagnetic field theory unified?

From: Franz Heymann (notfranz.heymann_at_btopenworld.com)
Date: 03/04/05 

Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 22:20:47 +0000 (UTC)

"bz" <bz+sp@ch100-5.chem.lsu.edu> wrote in message
news:Xns960F22901D72AWQAHBGMXSZHVspammote@130.39.198.139...
> "JM Albuquerque" <jm.aREM.OVE@sapo.pt> wrote in news:38ovuqF5s5tikU1
> @individual.net:
>
> > No receiver, no induction, no energy transport.
> > The main prove comes from TV and Radio stations.
> > The audience of a TV station can be measured by the power
> > consumption of the emitting antenna. That measurement is
> > made on daily bases. No audience (no one is tuned on
> > that TV station) no power consumption on the radiating
> > antenna at that TV frequency.
> > People working at the emitting antenna can tell you how
> > many people are tuned in TV station channel 1, channel 2,
> > channel 3, etc.
> > Believe me, they don't go door to door asking what TV
> > station is on. They simply measure the power consumption
> > at each TV frequency.
> >
> > Now tell me the receiver doesn't make any difference.
> >
>
> Where do you get this wild idea?
>
> Radio transmission does not work like the induction in a
transformer.
>
> As one who has worked on many transmitters, I can tell you that
> transmission does not depend on receiption and no one can tell from
> transmitter power how many receivers are tuned to that frequency.

If what you were saying were true, and I put a transmitter
> on one
> wavelength and measured the output power, changed the frequency
slightly,
> measured the output power again, I would know exactly how many
receivers
> were tuned to each of those frequencies. It doesn't work that way. I
can
> change the frequency from one wavelength to another and the only
thing that
> influences the output power is the transmitting antenna physics.

That's a neat, practical way of killing Albuquerque's belief stone
dead.

[snip] 

-- 
Franz
"A first-rate laboratory is one in which mediocre scientists can
produce outstanding work"
P.M.S. Blackett

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