[Amps] Re: Voodoo "EMF' forces from grid current pulses

Doug Hall doug at nc.rr.com
Fri Feb 7 09:51:33 EST 2003


Rich wrote:

> For years, accepted aeronautical engineering theory said a bumble bee
> can't fly.  The perplexing thing about bent filament helices in 3-500Zs
> is that theoretically, the cathode doesn't have enough peak emission to
> melt #28 Cu.
>

"Accepted aeronautical engineering" never said this. It has been passed
around sufficiently so as to become an "urban legend."

See:
http://www.sciencenews.org/sn_arc97/3_29_97/mathland.htm  and
http://www.asa3.org/archive/evolution/199602/0059.html

for some debunking of this oft (mis)repeated story.

73,
Doug, K4DSP



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