Hello,I am wondering if there is anything inside a PC that could be used to measure fluctuations in earth's magnetic field ?For now only thing I could come up with is "bit errors" caused in ram memory maybe caused by transister flips ?Question is can earth magnetic fields cause any transister or other component to suddenly flip ? For example if the magnetic field would be very strong ? I kinda doubt it because if this was the case then this would happen more often... but then again maybe error correction takes care of this.Maybe file systems on harddisks might show some form of corruption... but these could be caused by simply software errors or hardware crashes.Another idea might be to observe the speed of the cpu or gpu... for example doing massive ammounts of calculations... if the earth magnetic field changes... then maybe this would slow down electrons or maybe even speed them up... and thus the cpu might start to slow down or speed up momentarily... even if this would work and be detectable doing massive ammount of calculations all the time would not be desirable... maybe just running something that measures the reaction speed of the cpu when it's idle might do...However with computers always on the internet and receiving packets now and then this might be very difficult to do since the cpu will fluctuate a lot ;) maybe gpu might be more stable but I doubt that too...Would be funny if it was possible to detect though... maybe under ideal circumstances/laboratorium circumstances...I wonder if cpu or gpu speed will change when put into a strong magnetic field ?!?(Maybe a fluctuating field is required ?)Who is going to do this experiment ? ;) Or has it be done already and what are the results ?! ;) :)Bye, Skybuck.

Also if true... how do they make an atomic clock ?I would guess it would be shielded from earth magnetic fields ?! ;)So my theory of cpu speed fluctuations because of magnetic fields might be already confirmed by the shielding for the atomic clock ;)Or alternatively the atomic clock is not shielded from magnetic fields and therefore "they" are being fooled into believing it runs on time ! ;) :)Bye, Skybuck :)

Measuring fluctuations of earth's magnetic fields inside a pc ?

Oct 25, 2009 84 Replies

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krw 16 years ago

Wrong again, AlwaysWrong.

That you have to snip the facts proves what a dim bulb you really are, DimBulb.

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Archimedes' Lever 16 years ago

You know nothing of facts, retard boy.

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JosephKK 16 years ago

"JosephKK"

dumbfuck.

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=46or some reason i thought that was Corona (later Cordata). Alas long defunct.

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Michael A. Terrell 16 years ago

The fact is that Ii haven't looked at it in almost ten years and don't know which ones I got rid of after one hurricane damaged the roof. If you want to know, you can go in there and look for it.

The movie \'Deliverance\' isn\'t a documentary!

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krw 16 years ago

Wrong, AlwaysWrong.

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