Re: The Physics Behind the Spanish Blackout

On 11/06/2025 3:07 am, john larkin wrote:

On Wed, 11 Jun 2025 02:29:47 +1000, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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On 11/06/2025 12:55 am, john larkin wrote:

On Mon, 09 Jun 2025 16:02:19 -0400, Joe Gwinn <joegwinn@comcast.net>
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On Mon, 09 Jun 2025 09:49:24 -0700, john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>
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On Mon, 9 Jun 2025 11:34:08 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
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On 6/9/2025 10:14 AM, Joe Gwinn wrote:

On Sun, 08 Jun 2025 17:16:09 -0700, john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>
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On Sun, 08 Jun 2025 19:15:57 -0400, Joe Gwinn <joegwinn@comcast.net>
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Some people enjoy working with money. There are even people who like
being accountants. Electronics is much more fun to me.

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Think how much more fun you could have if you actually understood what
you were doing.

 
Quite the opposite. Fully understanding blinds one to possibilities.

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Possibilities you don't appreciate because you don't understand what's
goig on?
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I was just a few minutes ago discussing that with a couple of my guys.
 
We don't have to understand it, we just have to make it work.

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That does involve understanding why it is isn't working, and changing it
so that it can.
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Ultimately, nobody understands how the universe works. So inventions
lurk.

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We aren't talking about the whole universe, but rather the bit we need
to manipulate.
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And being unsure, staying confused, is the way to invent things.

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Not in my experience, or the experience  of those of my acquaintances
with a couple of dozen patents to their names.