Ground is no longer at ground potential

Reminds me of the April issues of Radio Electronics back in the day...

Thanks!

John :-#)#

Do you still have a spouse, or any friends?

What sort of stuff did they have? I may have to look andf see if they are archived. I know all the popular electronics can be viewed or downloaded online.

I hope we can all agree, all days of the year, that the sun is incandescent! With a daylight colour temperature...

I expect someone has worked out the wattage. It will be an astronomical number.

Mike.

Did I ever tell you that you're a wonderful explainer?

I wish I had a reason to learn photonics so I could justify spending some neurons to read your book..

Thanks.

I had a friend who was in a grocery store with is wife. While she was shopping he was wandering around. Thinking that he had to do something special for April-1, he went over to the desk and bough a lottery ticket, for his wife, with the previous day's winning numbers. When he found her, he fished the ticket out of his pocket and told her to check it when she checked out and continued to wander around. A few minutes later he heard her scream from across the store. Not sure if they're still married, though.

"Write-only memory"

I have a feeling that if anyone touched the sun, they would be electrocuted.....

I hope you guys enjoy this ancient specification writen by someone at my old employer, a computer manufacturer once upon a time...

While you're there, this is a circuit I designed back in the early 1960s for a rather strange purpose. I'd be interested to know if anyone has seen it before.

Mike.

Looks like a load of old balls to me.

Screen print function, monitor mounted on top of a copy machine. Mikek

I MEGO on a lot of the optics in Phil's book (entendues and such) but the photon budget stuff is comprehensible, and there's some really good stuff about electronic design.

It's roughly half electronics, which makes sense since the world is half electronics.

Yes, if you know about the theorem about combing a hairy ball the whole thing seems less convincing!

Mike.

Yes, if you know about the theorem about combing a hairy ball the whole thing seems less convincing!

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can global static electricity rises effect ground voltage ?

Probably on a global scale. Given all the various magnetic fields in and ar ound the earth, given the differences in resistance from location to locati on (on land) and more, I am sure there are all sorts of micro-variations. B ut ground potential at any given point will be whatever is needed - that is , able to take 100% of what is 'above ground' relative to it. Which is what is measured (at that point) in any case, correct?

Peter Wieck Melrose Park, PA

around the earth, given the differences in resistance from location to loca tion (on land) and more, I am sure there are all sorts of micro-variations. But ground potential at any given point will be whatever is needed - that is, able to take 100% of what is 'above ground' relative to it. Which is wh at is measured (at that point) in any case, correct?

I doahn know. Searching does not in short time lead to pursuable paths.

My experiments in the area define the concept as behaviorally and then func tionally positive pursuing action within the arrived at elevated or depress ed electric charge space.

From there awareness of time differences.....1950 vs 2010 ....in environmen tal charges coming from rubber on cement, electrical line discharge, the ga mut...for behavioral response to the environment is clearly yes it does thi s in a significant way.

This does not agree with your response. Link to the plumbing ?

The question posed here is based on a probably fictional number for stable microvolt flow in and out of the ground. A not available number ?

You write in pretzels, not clear English.

At the scales you are positing, there are very few things that humans could do that would affect global static potential. If the concept of a marble c ontaining a large amount of iron and maintaining a significant magnetic fie ld, traveling in a moderately hard (but by no means perfect) vacuum around a much larger magnetic field that is continuously spewing massive quantiti es of various particles, some charged, some not, some fast, some slow, some massive (in the realm of particles) and some not lets you see a way that r ubber on concrete, even large amounts of it relative to human size and weig ht, will materially affect ground-voltage other than _very_ locally - I wou ld like *that* explained.

No matter how arrogant Mankind might be, we are still barely the equivalent of light mold on an orange. And as far as the earth is concerned, various sorts of mold have come and gone with no material effect on the planet itse lf - not on any sort of galactic scale. We may render the planet inimical our particular type of mold, but as it happens, the earth just does not car e as in the fullness of time, some other sort will come along.

Peter Wieck Melrose Park, pA