Posts Made By: Larry Stange

Having only scanned a laymans overview for about 30 minutes the other night on Black Holes...I came away with serious doubts about the concepts of black holes.

1. Black "holes" would have to be spheres, holes invites an incorrect mental imaging.

2. The Hawking x-ray/cosmic ray generation of some black holes would not necessarily be due to separation of particle pairs at the black *hole* gravitational horizon...but could be due to matter approaching the horizon with a corresponding collapse of the electron sub shells. (e.g., L-shell electons compressed to the K-shell with the resulting "Quantum energy difference released as soft to hard x-rays.). This occurs when matter goes from a higher state to a lower state. Of course this compressed "collapse" would occur on every subshell from the K-shell outward, generating a wide band of electro-magnetic radiation.

3.Hawkings conjecture of what happens inside the horizon does not really help. But if we want to go there...I like the White hole worm concept better. It would seem just as reasonable to think condensed matter would disappear traveling as a worm thru a White *hole* into another time, making another Universe. Going still farther out....It could help explain all the old popular Transcendental stuff like time regression under hypnosis and parapsychology. After all there is no physics definition for the structure of thought *waves* which COULD survive Black *hole* gravitational compression & destruction. :-) -LarryS.

Incidently...wonder if Laser light follows the inverse square law being collimated?.....probably, just further.

Been mess'n with webcam. On the simultaneous transmissions of hundreds/thousands of cell phones....imagine a single freguency being transmitted. The freq. is continuous but it is pulses, for example like digital logic(binary)code. These code pulses are in continual small groups. I will try and use the keyboard here for a overly simple example showing groups first. The little dots are MY spacing only signifying an unending stream of data. The "groups" are letters.
...[ A ]...[ B ]...[ C ]...[ D ]...[etc]...
Now within these groups like A, B, etc. Is many more pulses.
The phone company breaks up a conversation from #1 caller into pulses for transmittal. They can take ONE single pulse from Caller #1 put it into group A and take ONE single pulse from Caller #2 & put it in group A AFTER #1's pulse. They can do this for many callers. When Group A is filled they can start putting in the first pulses of other callers into group B and so on. This happens extremely fast!. When original caller #1 adds another sound by talking, that pulse gets put in the next available group, and so on with all callers. The phone companies electronics keeps track of which pulses went where from the different callers speech. Their equipment (the phone receivers & transmitters) are kept in step by special pulses so that the individual pulses come out the way the went in and are re-assembled back again into speech for each listener on the phone. This is a terrible example I know. But what I am trying to say is that many, many people can talk on the same frequency so-to-speak at the same time because speech is broken up into little bits and kept track of by electronics. Same as fibre optic communication cables, transoceanic phone cables under the sea, and satellites too. Digitizing like this is going on in your CCD. Don't try to listen to it. :-) My apologies to the electronics persons here who like accuracy. This is only a ROUGH example. The speed of the digitized transmisson is so fast your entire voice frequency can be taken apart, transmitted, and reassembled before you can finish the ending sound of any word. It operates nearly instantaneously
a laser can be aimed at your window and the sound of voices in your house can be decoded into speech by the minute vibration of the glass effecting the reflected laser light back to a surveilance vehicle or tracking station. -LarryS

Did any amateur/professional astronomer photograph any part of the lunar landing or the flight to the moon with earth based telescopic equipment?.

Have identified a webcam as an early Connectix Color or Color2 camera. Does anyone have the software for this parallel port webcam or the SPECIFICATIONS of it?. I have thoroughly searched countless websites looking for both. Thanks.

Anyone been able to control the 675K with K3ccdtools?. It doesn't seem to support the 675K. It will however, recoqnize the avi files wherever I put the capture. I had hoped to use K3ccd to view the live image before capture and to control the number of images without using software for the Philips.

Initial imaging with this webcam looks very promising particularly in true color besides very good definition.

Anyone know where a schematic or block diagram for that camera is on line?.

Also needed, any comparative specifications on this Texas made CCD and a PCVC675-680?. 250mv/lux on the color quickcam does not relate to <1 lux without more info. Tnx.

Last question- How do you join QCUIAG without getting tons of e-mail?....there are two places to click on selections.

Need the name/type of a good epoxy that can absorb/transfer heat readily and is an excellent dialectric(non-conductive).

This is an attempt to bond a CCD substrate to ground plane traces and/or heat-absorbing metal nearby on a Philips 675K circuit card.

In the process of designing my 675K CCD housing I decided to test two 12V. ball bearing fans of the type used in computers.

A Socket 7 type, (more blades & air flow) for the larger processors had a distinct STRONG vibration under 100 hertz.

A Socket 3 type, (less blades & lower air flow) had a significantly reduced vibration but still strong enough to be easily felt by hand.

These vibrations of low frequency could easily degrade image quality if transmitted into the focus tube and telescope.

It might be wise to check image quality with fan on and off to see if the fan is causing reduced definition and contrast.

Of further note....most of the heat in the Philips Vesta PCVC675K is coming from the large processors on the piggy back assy board, NOT the CCD. This was a 1 hr. test with moderate illumination & heat sinking the CCD to the metal case via a cut-off metal mount which was a part of the original LED/Microphone/Lens front piece. The case was left open to isolate source of the heat. The heat sinking of the CCD did NOT increase case temperature in its vacinity.

I am a beginner, so these are for what it is worth. -LarryS