Hi All,
Yes, Oliver Heaviside is another of our little known doyens of the electronics world. He was indeed a remarkable man.
Most of us would only know his name, let alone of his existence, if we are involved in amateur radio or radio physics through the naming of the "Heaviside layer" or "E layer" in the ionosphere.
I put Oliver Heaviside in the same category as Nicola Tesla as two of the most under rated contributors to our understanding of the science of electricity and RF propagation.
Just my 2c worth...
Cheers...Bob VK2ZRE
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On 16/10/2024 12:11 pm, John Nightingale via groups.io wrote:
On 2024-10-15 12:59, W0LEV wrote:
WARNING:? MORE OFF TOPIC
And only last week I read a paper that proposed that in the big picture of
the universe which we are just on the verge of detecting, that as well
obeys quantization rules much like the electrons around the atomic nucleus
and the energy levels of the nuclear particles within the nucleus.? The
finer we poke at a problem, the more we discover we don't understand.? But
that's the joy and draw of hard science.
Oh, yes, to my last email.? Outside of Mr. Einstein, we must give Mr.
Maxwell full credit for bringing electromagnetics to a well defined set of
four equations (even though two of them are plagerized from previous
works).
With the greatest respect, what Mr. Maxwell produced, so very early
on, was a brilliant insight. It was, however, indigestible but for a few. Maxwell's four equations are, really, Oliver Heaviside's four equations.
Heaviside was a man without a formal background. Nonetheless, he was
one of the few who did understand Maxwell's jungle of ideas and "built" his own mathematics to express Maxwell's thesis. (For doing so, Mr. Heaviside was excoriated by his "betters", learned gentlemen all, at first, for having the temerity to fabricate a "do-it-yourself" mathematics that he could not seat upon a formal basis. Heaviside answered his critics by saying, essentially,"It works, you figure it out!")
?? After all, that's what our VNAs are all about: measuring RF energy
over its many forms and frequencies.? And Mendeleev for seeing the
organization of the basic elements.
Dave - W?LEV
On Tue, Oct 15, 2024 at 7:47?PM Ray Lulling via groups.io <ray=
[email protected]> wrote:
Waves or particles? Quantum Mechanics is stranger than truth
and physicists can¡¯t explain why. The latest read I¡¯ve seen suggests
that everything in the universe is composed of different kinds of
interacting fields. When certain fields interact with the Higgs field,
the interaction creates mass.
Don¡¯t think too much about this or your brain will hurt.?
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