[107854] in Cypherpunks
CDR: Choate's traps
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Tue Jan 26 14:14:10 1999
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 19:56:20 +0100
From: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
To: cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com
Reply-To: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
At 06:06 PM 1/25/99 -0600, Jim Choate wrote:
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>I'm not claiming anything, merely making an observation. There is nothing
>strange about a tuned optical trap and it most assuradely isn't a 'gizmo'
>in the negative connotation you'd have me use (if you had your way). And
>the optical trap technique has nothing to do with QM. The optical trap
>is pumped by a tunable dye laser. As that laser is moved across its tuning
>band the output of the trap could be observed for standing waves. If they
>occur then a harmonic has been found.
Jim, there is a practical problem of building machines to the precision
needed for this.
It is hard to machine gears with 2^1000 teeth.
