[NewCandle] EDS adventures

[Jones Beene]

--- Nick 

> Thanks for the fascinating stuff on Al-Si junctions!

Well it is a big stretch - not so big as little green
men, maybe - but it is so intriguing in
implications...

... hey - maybe I should pitch a fictional version to
the CSI TV show ;-) ... you know, gambler killed by
falling aluminum blob from Area 52 as UFO speeds away.
I guess that show is still on but I gave up TV some
years ago ... (so I could better waste my time on
YouTube, as Terry accurately observed)

BTW - should have mentioned this too - we usually
think of "beam power" as microwaves; and 500 MHz is
slightly below that (longer wl) technically speaking. 

However from the early days of particle beam
accelerators the cheapest way to get megawatts of
coherent RF is/was the "Klystron" tube in the range of
500 MHz. That factoid could related to all of this
beam power hypothesis or not.

A company nearby, Varian Assoc. made a fortune
building these tubes years ago and was well-connected
to the Pentagon; but is now in different fields and
different hands; but the tubes are still being made
overseas for industrial purposes (apparently).

I can almost see the opening scene from CSI where the
glowing white lights disappear into the nighttime
desert air ... just as Nick and I are on the way to
the ATM at the Mirage with a nice consultants fee ;-) 

Jones