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aether (OP) User ID: 57662877 United Kingdom 05/04/2014 03:35 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The days of the web are not necessarily numbered. It has a way of evolving, almost organically, as threats emerge. We have solutions to many of the problems that threaten our safety online, particularly those that relate to spoofing IP addresses, and misusing the older protocols, and will probably continue to produce more. Quoting: Seer777 The irony is that in such a hyper-connected world we struggle to get the word out about these solutions. People can access the information they need to stay safe online but are not doing so. It is almost as if there is so much communication that important messages are being lost in what is perceived as background noise. [link to www.livescience.com] Interesting how that mirrors nature. It's create by and made up of people. So it would have to mirror nature to my sense. Stings. And their intersections. [link to www.viewzone.com] :internet: yes, we have caused to become created a non material structure called "web or net" that instantly transfers information no matter the location we are within the location of the net/webb we have replicated some of our noticeable experiences with our higgs boson/aethyr/indra net non material structure that our authorities debate over while we join in the debate |
Seer777 Ride the wings of the mind User ID: 50018194 United States 05/04/2014 03:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Seems like someone is having a lot of fun. This shit drives me crazy. I run IT for a network security company and my sysadmins are constantly battling this shit. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 36053848 The DDOS attacks remind me of a concentrated effort to try and slow down something which has the unstoppable momentum of the Web and human imagination. Pushing against forward momentum such as the Internet, it will just evolve quicker, stronger, and more cunning. Necessity is the mother of all invention. Rings a bell. lol. Difficulties strengthen the Mind as labor does the body... ~Seneca |
aether (OP) User ID: 57662877 United Kingdom 05/04/2014 03:45 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Seems like someone is having a lot of fun. This shit drives me crazy. I run IT for a network security company and my sysadmins are constantly battling this shit. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 36053848 The DDOS attacks remind me of a concentrated effort to try and slow down something which has the unstoppable momentum of the Web and human imagination. Pushing against forward momentum such as the Internet, it will just evolve quicker, stronger, and more cunning. Necessity is the mother of all invention. Rings a bell. lol. yes, the social/cultural impression our world wide web causes is unimagined by our webs creators |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 11591337 United States 05/04/2014 03:53 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Spacetime May Be A Slippery Fluid Quoting: Seer777 Spacetime is a somewhat slippery concept -- Einstein described the universe in four dimensions, combining the well-known three dimensions of space with time. Physicists now suggest that spacetime may itself be a fluid, a very slippery type known as a superfluid. Now researchers suggest that if spacetime is a fluid, it must be an extraordinary kind of fluid known as a superfluid. These findings could help test models of quantum gravity. A superfluid is a fluid that flows with virtually zero friction or viscosity. In comparison, water might seem as slow as molasses. [link to www.livescience.com] 'Slippery' rang a bell for me. I believe at the time I was talking about the 'bubble'. And the colors which swirl around seemingly 'atop' a slippery surface. An invisible 'in between'. Not sure I recall enough to pull the post up though. :BubbleReflection: Feedback on slippery, lol, slid on some leaves and mud just a little while ago Einsteins religious view is interesting [link to en.wikipedia.org] Albert Einstein's religious views have been studied extensively. He said he believed in the "pantheistic" God of Baruch Spinoza, but not in a personal god, a belief he criticized. He also called himself an agnostic, while disassociating himself from the label atheist, preferring, he said, "an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being." lol. Did you catch yourself before falling? I did that the other day too. But it was inside. I just had an interesting thought. May be nothing. What happens when you put soap on wet, flat sand? Would something slid over the the top, glide more easily? Kind of, I jumped over a little creek and falls leaves were spread nicely to hide the mud underneath. So, I mostly fell but caught myself at the very end and laughed. All to go to the thinking tree. It is this huge tree that is really old. Oh, like scooting stones across easier? I think you mentioned that the other day. Back in the old days they used certain plants that were soapy to wash with. Don't know them off the top of my head though right now. |
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Seer777 Ride the wings of the mind User ID: 50018194 United States 05/04/2014 03:54 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | how many of you were incessantly trying access glp while it was down? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 57219122 Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Albert Einstein Didn't go down for me. Was just a bit slow. I believe that quote is mistakenly quoted to Einstein The answer isn't really known but current consensus is that it came from the author Rita Mae Brown in her book Sudden Death on Pg. 68 from 1983. Quote: "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results." Most people will attribute this quote to Albert Einstein but there is no evidence to suggest that he made this statement. This quote "Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results" [link to wiki.answers.com] Difficulties strengthen the Mind as labor does the body... ~Seneca |
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aether (OP) User ID: 57662877 United Kingdom 05/04/2014 03:56 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | how many of you were incessantly trying access glp while it was down? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 57219122 Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Albert Einstein Didn't go down for me. Was just a bit slow. I believe that quote is mistakenly quoted to Einstein The answer isn't really known but current consensus is that it came from the author Rita Mae Brown in her book Sudden Death on Pg. 68 from 1983. Quote: "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results." Most people will attribute this quote to Albert Einstein but there is no evidence to suggest that he made this statement. This quote "Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results" [link to wiki.answers.com] i am glad about that because it does not fit einsteins personality to say that Last Edited by aether on 05/04/2014 03:57 PM |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 11591337 United States 05/04/2014 03:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Spacetime May Be A Slippery Fluid Quoting: Seer777 Spacetime is a somewhat slippery concept -- Einstein described the universe in four dimensions, combining the well-known three dimensions of space with time. Physicists now suggest that spacetime may itself be a fluid, a very slippery type known as a superfluid. Now researchers suggest that if spacetime is a fluid, it must be an extraordinary kind of fluid known as a superfluid. These findings could help test models of quantum gravity. A superfluid is a fluid that flows with virtually zero friction or viscosity. In comparison, water might seem as slow as molasses. [link to www.livescience.com] 'Slippery' rang a bell for me. I believe at the time I was talking about the 'bubble'. And the colors which swirl around seemingly 'atop' a slippery surface. An invisible 'in between'. Not sure I recall enough to pull the post up though. :BubbleReflection: Feedback on slippery, lol, slid on some leaves and mud just a little while ago Einsteins religious view is interesting [link to en.wikipedia.org] Albert Einstein's religious views have been studied extensively. He said he believed in the "pantheistic" God of Baruch Spinoza, but not in a personal god, a belief he criticized. He also called himself an agnostic, while disassociating himself from the label atheist, preferring, he said, "an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being." “As the first way out there was religion, which is implanted into every child by way of the traditional education-machine. Thus I came — though the child of entirely irreligious (Jewish) parents — to a deep religiousness, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of twelve. Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached the conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true. The consequence was a positively fanatic orgy of freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is intentionally being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression. Mistrust of every kind of authority grew out of this experience, a skeptical attitude toward the convictions that were alive in any specific social environment-an attitude that has never again left me, even though, later on, it has been tempered by a better insight into the causal connections. It is quite clear to me that the religious paradise of youth, which was thus lost, was a first attempt to free myself from the chains of the ‘merely personal,’ from an existence dominated by wishes, hopes, and primitive feelings. ................ Quoting: albert einstein[link to www.stephenjaygould.org] same thing yes several people including the guy that owns facebook intend to introduce a world wide network of wifi from the air in the next 3 years causing a new internet accessible by all existing and future users of the internet this system feels practical/easiest to achieve Ambitious 'Outernet' could bring unfettered Internet access worldwide via mini satellites [link to appleinsider.com] The days of the web are not necessarily numbered. It has a way of evolving, almost organically, as threats emerge. We have solutions to many of the problems that threaten our safety online, particularly those that relate to spoofing IP addresses, and misusing the older protocols, and will probably continue to produce more. Quoting: Seer777 The irony is that in such a hyper-connected world we struggle to get the word out about these solutions. People can access the information they need to stay safe online but are not doing so. It is almost as if there is so much communication that important messages are being lost in what is perceived as background noise. [link to www.livescience.com] crossroad |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 57219122 United States 05/04/2014 03:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | how many of you were incessantly trying access glp while it was down? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 57219122 Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Albert Einstein i think it was his beliefs that caused einstein to become loopy in his investigations I always consider the source prior to lending credence to what is said. lol |
Seer777 Ride the wings of the mind User ID: 50018194 United States 05/04/2014 03:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | lol. Did you catch yourself before falling? I did that the other day too. But it was inside. Quoting: Seer777 I just had an interesting thought. May be nothing. What happens when you put soap on wet, flat sand? Would something slid over the the top, glide more easily? Kind of, I jumped over a little creek and falls leaves were spread nicely to hide the mud underneath. So, I mostly fell but caught myself at the very end and laughed. All to go to the thinking tree. It is this huge tree that is really old. Oh, like scooting stones across easier? I think you mentioned that the other day. Back in the old days they used certain plants that were soapy to wash with. Don't know them off the top of my head though right now. Yeah. I also considered that this would 'grind the stone down' and leave a smooth or 'faced' surface. Dunno. Difficulties strengthen the Mind as labor does the body... ~Seneca |
aether (OP) User ID: 57662877 United Kingdom 05/04/2014 04:02 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Spacetime May Be A Slippery Fluid Quoting: Seer777 Spacetime is a somewhat slippery concept -- Einstein described the universe in four dimensions, combining the well-known three dimensions of space with time. Physicists now suggest that spacetime may itself be a fluid, a very slippery type known as a superfluid. Now researchers suggest that if spacetime is a fluid, it must be an extraordinary kind of fluid known as a superfluid. These findings could help test models of quantum gravity. A superfluid is a fluid that flows with virtually zero friction or viscosity. In comparison, water might seem as slow as molasses. [link to www.livescience.com] 'Slippery' rang a bell for me. I believe at the time I was talking about the 'bubble'. And the colors which swirl around seemingly 'atop' a slippery surface. An invisible 'in between'. Not sure I recall enough to pull the post up though. Feedback on slippery, lol, slid on some leaves and mud just a little while ago Einsteins religious view is interesting [link to en.wikipedia.org] Albert Einstein's religious views have been studied extensively. He said he believed in the "pantheistic" God of Baruch Spinoza, but not in a personal god, a belief he criticized. He also called himself an agnostic, while disassociating himself from the label atheist, preferring, he said, "an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being." “As the first way out there was religion, which is implanted into every child by way of the traditional education-machine. Thus I came — though the child of entirely irreligious (Jewish) parents — to a deep religiousness, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of twelve. Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached the conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true. The consequence was a positively fanatic orgy of freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is intentionally being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression. Mistrust of every kind of authority grew out of this experience, a skeptical attitude toward the convictions that were alive in any specific social environment-an attitude that has never again left me, even though, later on, it has been tempered by a better insight into the causal connections. It is quite clear to me that the religious paradise of youth, which was thus lost, was a first attempt to free myself from the chains of the ‘merely personal,’ from an existence dominated by wishes, hopes, and primitive feelings. ................ Quoting: albert einstein[link to www.stephenjaygould.org] same thing yes several people including the guy that owns facebook intend to introduce a world wide network of wifi from the air in the next 3 years causing a new internet accessible by all existing and future users of the internet this system feels practical/easiest to achieve Ambitious 'Outernet' could bring unfettered Internet access worldwide via mini satellites [link to appleinsider.com] The days of the web are not necessarily numbered. It has a way of evolving, almost organically, as threats emerge. We have solutions to many of the problems that threaten our safety online, particularly those that relate to spoofing IP addresses, and misusing the older protocols, and will probably continue to produce more. Quoting: Seer777 The irony is that in such a hyper-connected world we struggle to get the word out about these solutions. People can access the information they need to stay safe online but are not doing so. It is almost as if there is so much communication that important messages are being lost in what is perceived as background noise. [link to www.livescience.com] crossroad yes, for the first time in our recorded history upon gaia we are on the threshold of creating a global authority free instant communications system that is no cost and accessible in every location and we possess the ability for no cost to user to provide rechargeable hand held instant communications technology that does everything we require to express ourselves in all mediums of media this is a new to this planet notion that does not exist in our visible records thus there is no known outcome to this experience Last Edited by aether on 05/04/2014 04:03 PM |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 57219122 United States 05/04/2014 04:03 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | how many of you were incessantly trying access glp while it was down? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 57219122 Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Albert Einstein Didn't go down for me. Was just a bit slow. I believe that quote is mistakenly quoted to Einstein The answer isn't really known but current consensus is that it came from the author Rita Mae Brown in her book Sudden Death on Pg. 68 from 1983. Quote: "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results." Most people will attribute this quote to Albert Einstein but there is no evidence to suggest that he made this statement. This quote "Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results" [link to wiki.answers.com] regardless the point has merit. |
aether (OP) User ID: 57662877 United Kingdom 05/04/2014 04:10 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | lol. Did you catch yourself before falling? I did that the other day too. But it was inside. Quoting: Seer777 I just had an interesting thought. May be nothing. What happens when you put soap on wet, flat sand? Would something slid over the the top, glide more easily? Kind of, I jumped over a little creek and falls leaves were spread nicely to hide the mud underneath. So, I mostly fell but caught myself at the very end and laughed. All to go to the thinking tree. It is this huge tree that is really old. Oh, like scooting stones across easier? I think you mentioned that the other day. Back in the old days they used certain plants that were soapy to wash with. Don't know them off the top of my head though right now. Yeah. I also considered that this would 'grind the stone down' and leave a smooth or 'faced' surface. Dunno. oh The climate of the Sahara has undergone enormous variations between wet and dry over the last few hundred thousand years. This is due to a 41000 year cycle in which the tilt of the earth changes between 22° and 24.5°. At present (2000 CE), we are in a dry period, but it is expected that the Sahara will become green again in 15000 years (17000 CE). Quoting: observationDuring the last glacial period, the Sahara was even bigger than it is today, extending south beyond its current boundaries. The end of the glacial period brought more rain to the Sahara, from about 8000 BCE to 6000 BCE, perhaps because of low pressure areas over the collapsing ice sheets to the north. Once the ice sheets were gone, the northern Sahara dried out. In the southern Sahara though, the drying trend was soon counteracted by the monsoon, which brought rain further north than it does today. In this period, there was still a monsoon climate in the Sahara. Monsoons form by heating of air over the land during summer. The hot air rises and pulls in cool, wet air from the ocean, which causes rain. Thus, though it seems counterintuitive, the Sahara was wetter when it received more insolation in the summer. This was caused by a stronger tilt in Earth's axis of orbit than today (24.5 degree tilt vs the 23.4° tilt today ), and perihelion occurred at the end of July around 7000 BCE. By around 4200 BCE, the monsoon retreated south to approximately where it is today, leading to the gradual desertification of the Sahara. The Sahara is now as dry as it was about 13,000 years ago. [link to en.wikipedia.org] i have never seen that /z\ before , a tilt cycle |
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Seer777 Ride the wings of the mind User ID: 50018194 United States 05/04/2014 04:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The days of the web are not necessarily numbered. It has a way of evolving, almost organically, as threats emerge. We have solutions to many of the problems that threaten our safety online, particularly those that relate to spoofing IP addresses, and misusing the older protocols, and will probably continue to produce more. Quoting: Seer777 The irony is that in such a hyper-connected world we struggle to get the word out about these solutions. People can access the information they need to stay safe online but are not doing so. It is almost as if there is so much communication that important messages are being lost in what is perceived as background noise. [link to www.livescience.com] Interesting how that mirrors nature. It's create by and made up of people. So it would have to mirror nature to my sense. Stings. And their intersections. [link to www.viewzone.com] :internet: Not strings. Cords. Like vocal cord. Spinal cord. Like neuron and myelin sheath. [link to myhealth.alberta.ca (secure)] Also like... [link to dhbc.ky.gov] [link to www.youtube.com (secure)] A network of networks that share each other... I got that on the way to the store. :P /z\ Difficulties strengthen the Mind as labor does the body... ~Seneca |
Seer777 Ride the wings of the mind User ID: 50018194 United States 05/04/2014 04:54 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | What occurs when any type of cord which send electrical impulse is damaged? Spinal cord for example. It was cued being the cord on my headphones broke a couple hours ago and only worked on one side. Right side interestingly enough. I could jiggle the cord and it would work once touching again, but any movement cause it to go out again. Broken internal wire. Broken connection. Difficulties strengthen the Mind as labor does the body... ~Seneca |
aether (OP) User ID: 57662877 United Kingdom 05/04/2014 04:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The days of the web are not necessarily numbered. It has a way of evolving, almost organically, as threats emerge. We have solutions to many of the problems that threaten our safety online, particularly those that relate to spoofing IP addresses, and misusing the older protocols, and will probably continue to produce more. Quoting: Seer777 The irony is that in such a hyper-connected world we struggle to get the word out about these solutions. People can access the information they need to stay safe online but are not doing so. It is almost as if there is so much communication that important messages are being lost in what is perceived as background noise. [link to www.livescience.com] Interesting how that mirrors nature. It's create by and made up of people. So it would have to mirror nature to my sense. Stings. And their intersections. [link to www.viewzone.com] :internet: Not strings. Cords. Like vocal cord. Spinal cord. Like neuron and myelin sheath. [link to myhealth.alberta.ca (secure)] Also like... [link to dhbc.ky.gov] [link to www.youtube.com (secure)] A network of networks that share each other... I got that on the way to the store. :P /z\ a sharing philosophy within a dimension (web) where sharing causes no harm to the dimension (web) is that a philosophy Last Edited by aether on 05/04/2014 04:58 PM |
aether (OP) User ID: 57662877 United Kingdom 05/04/2014 05:02 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | oh Quoting: aether brien has just introduced the notion of telsa , aethyr, telluric current, obelisks and pyramids This video came up earlier. The sound cuts out but around that time you'll see the ingredients to make the glass stones. the different condition of the stone having inside of stone more worn than the outside of the stone indicates telluric current transmission |
aether (OP) User ID: 57662877 United Kingdom 05/04/2014 05:05 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | oh Quoting: aether brien has just introduced the notion of telsa , aethyr, telluric current, obelisks and pyramids This video came up earlier. The sound cuts out but around that time you'll see the ingredients to make the glass stones. the different condition of the stone having inside of stone more worn than the outside of the stone indicates telluric current transmission What occurs when any type of cord which send electrical impulse is damaged? Quoting: Seer777 Spinal cord for example. It was cued being the cord on my headphones broke a couple hours ago and only worked on one side. Right side interestingly enough. I could jiggle the cord and it would work once touching again, but any movement cause it to go out again. Broken internal wire. Broken connection. the indication is overload (broken wire) is the cause within the stones in egypt |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 57219122 United States 05/04/2014 05:06 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | oh Quoting: aether brien has just introduced the notion of telsa , aethyr, telluric current, obelisks and pyramids This video came up earlier. The sound cuts out but around that time you'll see the ingredients to make the glass stones. the different condition of the stone having inside of stone more worn than the outside of the stone indicates telluric current transmission an obelisk, the tallest structure in an area. lightning comes to mind. lol |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 57219122 United States 05/04/2014 05:08 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | oh Quoting: aether brien has just introduced the notion of telsa , aethyr, telluric current, obelisks and pyramids This video came up earlier. The sound cuts out but around that time you'll see the ingredients to make the glass stones. the different condition of the stone having inside of stone more worn than the outside of the stone indicates telluric current transmission an obelisk, the tallest structure in an area. lightning comes to mind. lol just what is tayga's scientific field of expertise? |
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aether (OP) User ID: 57662877 United Kingdom 05/04/2014 05:14 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | oh Quoting: aether brien has just introduced the notion of telsa , aethyr, telluric current, obelisks and pyramids This video came up earlier. The sound cuts out but around that time you'll see the ingredients to make the glass stones. the different condition of the stone having inside of stone more worn than the outside of the stone indicates telluric current transmission an obelisk, the tallest structure in an area. lightning comes to mind. lol yes brien is experiencing the integrated systems within our ancient stone structures causing visible electromagnetic society that did not cope with a planetary overload causing global breakdown of visible electromagnetic society of our distant past is where brien seems to be going |
Seer777 Ride the wings of the mind User ID: 50018194 United States 05/04/2014 05:14 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | So you are saying the obelisks were the 'cellphone towers' of the ancient age? Perhaps that is why cities were built next to them. What percentage of granite is quartz? [link to www.acquiremag.com] Difficulties strengthen the Mind as labor does the body... ~Seneca |
aether (OP) User ID: 57662877 United Kingdom 05/04/2014 05:18 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... Quoting: Fancypantz This video came up earlier. The sound cuts out but around that time you'll see the ingredients to make the glass stones. the different condition of the stone having inside of stone more worn than the outside of the stone indicates telluric current transmission an obelisk, the tallest structure in an area. lightning comes to mind. lol just what is tayga's scientific field of expertise? muon collider complex (uk) , i don`t know what her specialty is |
aether (OP) User ID: 57662877 United Kingdom 05/04/2014 05:24 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | So you are saying the obelisks were the 'cellphone towers' of the ancient age? Quoting: Seer777 Perhaps that is why cities were built next to them. What percentage of granite is quartz? [link to www.acquiremag.com] that is the point about all of our societies , cultures and faiths upon gaia, the all arise because there was a stone structure already in location no one knows who , how or why was built and it thus far is true no matter where upon gaia we go our history in the locality of someone living a lifestyle we have have no memory of expressing ourselves |
Seer777 Ride the wings of the mind User ID: 50018194 United States 05/04/2014 05:25 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | So you are saying the obelisks were the 'cellphone towers' of the ancient age? Quoting: Seer777 Perhaps that is why cities were built next to them. What percentage of granite is quartz? [link to www.acquiremag.com] What happens when you send an electric current though a quartz crystal? It pulses every 1 second. Close enough to keep time by... Packets? Analog? Quartz crystals have been in regular use for many years to give an accurate frequency for all radio transmitters, radio receivers and computers. Their accuracy comes from an amazing set of coincidences: Quartz -- which is silicon dioxide like most sand -- is unaffected by most solvents and remains crystalline to hundreds of degrees Fahrenheit. The property that makes it an electronic miracle is the fact that, when compressed or bent, it generates a charge or voltage on its surface. This is a fairly common phenomenon called the Piezoelectric effect. In the same way, if a voltage is applied, quartz will bend or change its shape very slightly. If a bell were shaped by grinding a single crystal of quartz, it would ring for minutes after being tapped. Almost no energy is lost in the material. A quartz bell -- if shaped in the right direction to the crystalline axis -- will have an oscillating voltage on its surface, and the rate of oscillation is unaffected by temperature. If the surface voltage on the crystal is picked off with plated electrodes and amplified by a transistor or integrated circuit, it can be re-applied to the bell to keep it ringing. [link to electronics.howstuffworks.com] Difficulties strengthen the Mind as labor does the body... ~Seneca |