On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Lau, Gary wrote:
Terry Fritz had posted a very detailed and readable point-by-point
critique of the Corums paper. That post is archived at
http://www.pupman.com/listarchives/1999/October/msg00428.html
Thanks! I read that long ago, but didn't dig up the Corum's paper to
check everything.
Terry's major beef centers on engineering: their paper is irrelevant
to coilers. I totally agree. And General Relativity is irrelevant to
mechanical engineers. Their's is a science paper, and the situations
where it becomes important are with things like general EM theory, or
Tesla's World System, and NOT the situations ever encountered in
building lightning generators. For example, multi-mode operation is
a fascinating physics phenomenon, but for engineers whose goal is to
increase spark length and efficiency, operation at higher modes is a
useless distraction which needs to be halted. As Terry says,running
a coil at upper harmonics does not let them "operate acceptably."
That's very much an engineering viewpoint. Now a scientist *only*
wants to examine the "unacceptable" operation, since that's the stuff
that's outside the box, and not part of any coilers' knowledge.
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