But you're right, the pattern is super hard to figure out. I spent so many hours in laser physics labs in college, and those dots look brutal to make sense of. I think it would help him immensely if he cleaned up the beams a bit (we put the beam through a microscope objective with a calibrated pin hole at the focal point). But... I dunno if that would remove the modes he's looking for. Without cleaning that beam up, slight vibrations in beam speckle could cause that pixel to drop slightly in intensity. An unfiltered laser beam is just a gory mess to deal with, in general.
I suppose my complaint is there's a lot of fluff and noise.
Feynman said,
"I would like to add something that's not essential to the science, but something I kind of believe, which is that you should not fool the layman when you're talking as a scientist. I am not trying to tell you what to do about cheating on your wife, or fooling your girlfriend, or something like that, when you're not trying to be a scientist, but just trying to be an ordinary human being. We'll leave those problems up to you and your rabbi. I'm talking about a specific, extra type of integrity that is not lying, but bending over backwards to show how you're maybe wrong, that you ought to have when acting as a scientist. And this is our responsibility as scientists, certainly to other scientists, and I think to laymen."
He may very well be legit, as there are some seriously weird things that happen in tortured EM fields, but without the frank openness of the data and setup (he only seems to have one angle shot of the apparatus), I can't help verify or make sense of it.
http://www.paresspacewarpresearch.org/Projet_Space_Warp/Spac...
But you're right, the pattern is super hard to figure out. I spent so many hours in laser physics labs in college, and those dots look brutal to make sense of. I think it would help him immensely if he cleaned up the beams a bit (we put the beam through a microscope objective with a calibrated pin hole at the focal point). But... I dunno if that would remove the modes he's looking for. Without cleaning that beam up, slight vibrations in beam speckle could cause that pixel to drop slightly in intensity. An unfiltered laser beam is just a gory mess to deal with, in general.
I suppose my complaint is there's a lot of fluff and noise.
"I would like to add something that's not essential to the science, but something I kind of believe, which is that you should not fool the layman when you're talking as a scientist. I am not trying to tell you what to do about cheating on your wife, or fooling your girlfriend, or something like that, when you're not trying to be a scientist, but just trying to be an ordinary human being. We'll leave those problems up to you and your rabbi. I'm talking about a specific, extra type of integrity that is not lying, but bending over backwards to show how you're maybe wrong, that you ought to have when acting as a scientist. And this is our responsibility as scientists, certainly to other scientists, and I think to laymen." http://neurotheory.columbia.edu/~ken/cargo_cult.htmlHe may very well be legit, as there are some seriously weird things that happen in tortured EM fields, but without the frank openness of the data and setup (he only seems to have one angle shot of the apparatus), I can't help verify or make sense of it.