Posted on 10/22/2020 7:41:23 AM PDT by Red Badger
Tech Ping!.................
My favorite magnons are the filets (waddya want?....I haven’t had my coffee yet).
BTW, “magnon” is a fundamental element of magnetism, apparently equivalent to an electron in normal circuitry. I looked it up, and I figure I’m unlikely to be the only one never to have previously encountered the term.
Cool. Interesting to think about the physics and engineering that goes on in order to imitate neurological structure and function.
Cro-Magnon man knew about it long time ago!
“BTW, “magnon” is a fundamental element of magnetism, apparently equivalent to an electron in normal circuitry.”
Seems odd to me, since magnetism and electricity are fundamentally linked, so you would think the fundamental element would be the same for both of them.
I mean, what’s the mass of a “magnon”? Do molecules that are magnetically attracted exchange and share magnons? Wouldn’t that mean the magnetic charge of one would be dropping and the other increasing?
I wonder which UFO crsh retrieval they got this idea from? /sarc
Tech Ping
Hmm, I looked it up too, and it’s not actually a “fundamental particle”, it’s a quasiparticle, like a soliton.
So it’s an emergent effect that can behave and be treated mathematically like a particle, but it’s just composed of the combined effects of waves from “real” particles.
Directional coupler!!!
Now that brings back some memories. The ones I remember were made from metal waveguide and operated at L, S, C or X Band. These are apparently a bit smaller.
I use directional couplers today that are the size of a postage stamp...................
I use directional couplers today that are the size of a postage stamp...................
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I’m curious. What technology? What frequency bands? I was quoting radar bands. I’m not sure if those designations are still in common usage.
Thanks for the ping...
I was thinking phonon, but I can see soliton also.
Just an old ME, not a young physicist . . .
Yeah, phonons are the same kind of phenomenon, just produced by a different kind of waves.
What is interesting to me about these pseudoparticles is that they demonstrate that the interaction of “out” waves from different origins alone can produce at least the appearance of a particle, and not just that, but seemingly any variety of particle. Which is kind of exactly what the Milo Wolff’s Wave Structure of Matter theory proposes accounts for ALL particles, not just pseudoparticles. So how can we tell if Wolff’s not correct? Is there some property of a “real” particle that can definitively distinguish it from a pseudoparticle? Pseudos can have charge, spin, mass, etc, so how can you say that they are not all “pseudoparticles”, just creating each other by the interactions of their waves?
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