“Well, if’n I could ‘splain it to the average dude I wouldna gotten me the Nobel prize.”
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"Brilliant Pebbles is a unique and comprehensive system for tuning the room and audio system based on special physical properties of highly symmetrical crystal structures.
Brilliant Pebbles addresses specific resonance control and RFI/EMI absorption problems associated with audio electronics No snake oil here.
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robelvick435 posts01-10-2019 8:41pmThings turn out worse, for people who make the worst of the way things turn out. Ah, the old philosopher. 😴 |
I was figuring to trap someone with that last quote. 😬 It was attributed to PT Barnum but I doubt he actually said it. The person who said the first three quotes probably wouldn't say the last one. It doesn’t make sense. He’s accused of saying, There’s a sucker born every minute, too. But he didn’t say that, either. |
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glupson It seems that "quantum physics" is used as some sort of a card you are not allowed to dispute around here. >>>>Glubson, no worries, I’m used to people trying to make something out of something it’s not. As regards the word quantum do you have a frog 🐸 in your pocket? If you have something to say spit it out. Dispute what? |
@romeoaudio If you read my white paper on Brilliant Pebbles I suspect you would have no problem undestanding it. It even has pictures. I can certainly understand why many people are put off by words. Words like atomic binding force, kinetic energy, lattice structure. By the way, thermodynamics is my middle name. My education was theoretical propulsion and fluid dynamics. Coinkidink! |
radiomanjh geoffkait you have been around a long time and I can’t comment about your products but I have come across others that do use crystals in their power cords. I only know this because of wanting to change their connectors and found them within them. >>>>I welcome them with open arms. And wish everyone good luck. In fact all my products come with a little note that says good luck! |
Yes, I know all that. But that is not how I explain how pebbles (natural mineral crystals) work, which I did fifteen years ago. I would call explanation atomic physics, not QP. Now, it may be Jack describes how crystals interact with his other technology, I can’t say. But since I have been in the specific field of crystals and atomic physics of crystals a whole lot longer than Jack I defer to myself. 😬 I’m also not sure what *actual material* Jack uses, as he describes it in some places as “crystal like.” So, who knows? My use of crystals (Brilliant Pebbles) is almost exclusively as resonance control devises and my crystal based products address a wide range of audio issues. Whereas Jack’s devices almost always or always in the electrical signal path, from what I read. Brilliant Pebbles is not in the signal path per se. I presented a paper to national conference fifty years ago regarding a design for a low thrust high specific impulse rocket engine for interplanetary space travel that develops thrust by bombarding metal polycrystal with a highly accelerated Xenon ion beam, producing sputtering of atoms from the surface of the metal polycrystal. As I already intimated I authored the paper that described how the QP Intelligent Chip works back in 2005. Summary: “The Intelligent Chip works quantum mechanically via coherent quantum superposition and quantum entanglement. Two coherent light sources (the CD player laser and the quantum dots in the Intelligent Chip) interact with the atoms in the CD’s polycarbonate layer to produce long-lasting, superior optical transparency for better optical signal to noise ratio during the laser-reading process. The active material in the Intelligent Chip is quantum dots - artificial atoms grown in the lab tuned to emit photons of a pre-determined wavelength. In the case of the original Intelligent Chip, CD laser light escapes the player through a narrow gap around the CD tray. The emitted photons from chip commingle with the CD laser light that is everywhere in the room and inside the player; the commingled light resonates with the CD’s polycarbonate material, improving its optical performance. In the case of The Super Intelligent Chip, the process occurs entirely inside the CD player where all the interactions are more intense.” |
Just to be clear, this thread is not really about QP, although it’s an interesting subject. Physics should not be divided up between classical physics and quantum physics, anyway. It’s a misconception to think that QP is just some vague concept that only applies to tiny particles. There is no such constraint. The CD laser is an example of applied quantum physics, as someone said. Audiophiles, for whatever reason are sometimes way out in front of new applications for technology, such as Graphene and QP. THE Intelligent Chip is an obvious example of QP, so is the WA Quantum Chip. I have others. Evil 👿 laughter. |
Just a note to say what Einstein was referring to by the word “spooky” was not wave particle duality but “action at a distance.” “Spooky action at a distance” (relativistic Physics) was the subject of the famous EPR paper in 1935. Everybody was pretty much already on board the wave particle duality train 🚂 once the double slit experiment for light was performed by Young in 1801, later confirmed for other particles in 1927. But more to the point, I personally don’t use quantum physics to explain Brilliant Pebbles. It’s pretty straightforward atomic physics. |
romeoaudio4 posts01-05-2019 7:00amWelcome aboard... lol, thats funny and unknown to you an interesting coincidence considering I spent four years in the US Navy. >>>>I worked in the radio room of boomers and worked directly for the former head of US Navy SATCOM program. When we look at physics as it applies to electricity-- conductance, reactance, capacitance, inductance, and resistance; these are not ’meaningless generalizations’ on how the flow of electrons down a conductor are effected. Just because all (perhaps most) of us don’t understand Quantum Physics doesn’t make it meaningless... I for one am just ignorant (definition: I don’t know what I don’t know) as apposed to indifferent: I know but I don’t care... >>>>That’s all fine and dandy but can I point out electrons don’t flow down a conductor? For all intents and purposes electrons are just drifting along. 😀 They are simply the charge carriers. You want to read about cutting edge Quantum Physics, read about ’Spintronics’ and the application it has in information storage... oh my! It’s mentioned in the ’Positive Feedback’ internet review of a Bybee Technologies product (IQSE’s I believe). >>>>As I’ve written, the operational characteristics of crystals can described by ordinary physics and do not (rpt not) require any high fallutin’ quantum type descriptions. My head is Spinning! - Run silent, run deep. |
millercarbon54 posts01-04-2019 9:58pmgeoff, what dressing do you recommend to go with your word salad? >>>>Wow, I’m going out of my way here to provide good information and answer questions and all you can think of is food. |
I actually explained the atomic physics involved when crystals are used in audio applications around 15 years ago on my web site. Glad to see someone interested in the physics of crystals. Welcome aboard, sailor! Brilliant Pebbles was the first comprehensive crystal based product for audio applications. Brilliant Pebbles debuted at the Hi Fi Show at Heathrow Airport, London 2003, or maybe 2004 and were demo’d in the Golden Sound room at CES in 2005. Brilliant Pebbles - White Paper, how crystals work, http://machinadynamica.com/machina17.htm |
Maybe the very best way to find out where crystals should be placed in a given room is to map out the 3 dimensional space of the room using a SPL meter and a test tone, a good test tone is 315 Hz but they are probably others, too. Wherever you find sound pressure peaks in the room, including reflection points and standing waves, etc. that exceed the average SPL in the room by more than 6 dB, bingo! That’s where one goes! Example, upper room corners. Before you know it, you’ve got yourself a Fortress of Solitude, dude. |
More good stuff on the original Star Wars’ Brilliant Pebbles concept. The name is a play on the idea of Smart Rocks, a concept promoted by Daniel O. Graham as part of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI).[a] This used large battle stations with powerful sensors, carrying dozens of small missiles, the rocks. To keep enough missiles above the Soviet Union at any given time, a minimum of 423 stations would be needed. The United States Air Force pointed out that this would require an enormous space lift capability, well beyond what was available. In meetings with Graham, Teller dismissed the concept as "outlandish"[3] and vulnerable to attack by anti-satellite weapons. The SDI Office (SDIO) was similarly dismissive of the concept. Teller and Wood initially proposed their own BMD system, Project Excalibur. This used an X-ray laser driven by a nuclear warhead that could attack dozens of ICBMs at once. In 1986, Excalibur failed several critical tests. Soon after, the American Physical Society published a report stating that none of the directed-energy weapons being studied by SDI were remotely ready for use. Abandoning these approaches for the short term, SDIO then promoted a new concept that was essentially a renamed Smart Rocks. It was at this point that Wood introduced Pebbles, suggesting that advances in sensors and microprocessors meant there was no need for a central station—the missiles could host all the equipment they needed to act alone. To attack this system, anti-satellite weapons would have to be launched against every pebble, not every station. |