What you have done here is prove that you are a complete idiot. I wrote that something was something else in a sense (You apparently do not know what that means). The person to whom I wrote that replied that it was an "actuality" (his word) that a transistor was two diodes back-to-back. I replied that putting two diodes back-to-back did not make a transistor. I gave an actual example of soldering two diodes together, something that is done routinely every day in the construction of a bridge rectifier. You come back oblivious to the proper use of words and try to accuse me of following the "jesuistic way". Sir, what that points out is not my actions but rather your preoccupation with some deep seated resentment. Now get a life. I will not respond to such a blithering idiot. A junction transistor is "in a sense" two back-to-back transistors. And I quote you "One may speak of a diode as an actual physical package you may hold in your hand, and solder into a circuit. One may also speak of the fundamental properties of a diode, as a mathematician would in defining it's properties."
in a sense
adv : in some respects; "in a sense, language is like math" [syn: in a way]
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AndrewC statement #2: I replied that putting two diodes back-to-back did not make a transistor.
Tell you what, as soon as you're done arguing with yourself, get back to us.
Meanwhile:
In the race for smaller and smaller electronic components, Man-Kit Ng, SM'97, PhD'02, and chemistry professor Luping Yu have made a gigantic leap forward. The pair created a molecular diode—an electrical component that conducts electricity in one direction—by chemically bonding two electrically opposed compounds made mostly of hydrogen and carbon, embedding them in a sheet only one molecule thick, and then transferring the sheet to a gold platform. The resulting diode, approximately 12 atoms wide, could be the first in a move toward smaller, simpler, and thus faster transistors—which are made by placing two diodes back to back.
...So, the question is, is "actuality" the physical black box called a diode by the manufacturers of potted devices, or is "actuality" what occurs on a silicon backplane where the active device actually does it's work?
Just for the record, this is, in your own words, the exact point in this conversation where your habitual jesuistry struck once again.
I will not respond to such a blithering idiot.
You already made and broke this promise once. Perhaps you have a 5 paragraph explanation as to why that didn't occur, as well?