Re: The Physics Behind the Spanish Blackout

On 11/06/2025 10:44 pm, john larkin wrote:

On Wed, 11 Jun 2025 20:40:28 +1000, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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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.

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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.
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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.

 How wonderful. They must be fabulously wealthy.

My father was well-off but he didn't own any of his patents. My friend in Scotland is in the same boat. My Australian friend made about 12 million Australian dollars out one of his patents, but seems to have managed to fritter most of it away on less successful inventions.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney