Things that “blow your mind”


In this hobby of ours, the things that have “blown your mind”.  Both Fact & Fiction.

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The Caltech guy demonstrating that electrical energy is carried by the EM field and not "through" a wire as we have always depicted. See Derek Muller at Veritasium channel.  

The Caltech guy demonstrating that electrical energy is carried by the EM field and not "through" a wire as we have always depicted. See Derek Muller at Veritasium channel.  

The answer explain why i quitted vinyl at the time in the years between 1975 and 1980 where there was a degradation of the material component in many companies for the sake of profit...( my new vinyls gave me noise often) 

Vinyl material qualities ask for extreme quality why ?

 

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  • Average contact pressure (both walls): ≈ 30,000–60,000 PSI
  • Peak pressure on the “loaded” wall during high-velocity modulation: 50,000–100,000 PSI (and occasionally higher with very fine-line styli)

These numbers explain why vinyl is actually under enormous local pressure (far higher than a car tire on asphalt, which is only ~35 PSI), yet still survives thousands of plays: the contact patch is microscopic, the vinyl is relatively soft and visco elastic, and the stylus slides rather than rolls.» GROK 

 

The force in pounds per square inch of phonograph stylus contacting a record is more force per psi than the contact area of the tires against the road of a fully-loaded 18 wheeler. True?  Not true?

@mylogic 

All great questions.  I just want to add that the truck driver had Taco Bell for lunch, and the cargo transported was legal vs illegal goods.

@mahgister 

Good stuff.  I recall a photo from years ago of a highly magnified image of a record playing with smoke emitting from the stylus tip where it contacted the record.  This may have been fake, but this would have been much harder to do before AI.