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OK its a fair cop, rule 10 violation acknowledged>

OOps. sorry didn't mean to tread on toes

Hi Random I think your explanation about frequency response and pickup position is a bit "iffy". The tension in the string is pretty much the same over its length. However for a pickup near the bridge, the string excursions are much less and even more so for the bass strings. so this pickup produces much less signal in the bass register.

gravity action speed, what the experiments show. Physics letters A 250:1-11 (1998) Astrophys.&Space Sci 224:249-261 (1996) Meta Res.Bull. 5:38-50 & 62-64 (1996) The force carrier for gravity (graviton) is a wave. It presumably will show wave properties and travel at c. Masses have been exchanging gravitons ever since all mass was local. The size of the gravity mediated universe is the same as the photon observable universe. In my example, gravitons arriving at s2 interact and instantly generate gravity force at the CURRENT positions of s1 and s2. This non local action ensures Newtonian gravity dynamics. The same applies to gravitons arriving at s1 at the moment of supernova. There is no conflict between the wave velocity and the speed of execution of gravity interaction. We must all accept that there is is no aberration (retardation) of the gravity action. Binary high mass observations showing retardation cannot eliminate mass transfer as a contributor. If you apply light speed retardation, then high mass binary systems decay very rapidly,and would not be observed. Thus s2 will perturb at the moment of supernova since s1 mass is absent. Evidence is still accumulating and even on the scale of the solar system, calculations show orbital instability with even very small variation from Newtonian dynamics.

Heres an interesting thought If we define the speed of light as 1 cosmological unit per second Then, e=m cosmological energy units Where does this leave our mass definition?

You have a binary star system s1,s2 with 0.1 light year separation. s1 goes supernova. Would the gravitational perturbation of the right motion of s2 be instant or light transit time delayed. If instant, depending on the orbital dispositions we could observe perturbation before the supernova.

Good luck indeed.

Space-time geometry was a postulate by Einstein to accomodate the instant non local effect of gravity, which he found unacceptable. In essence it allows all gravity effects to be local. This is not incompatible with gravitons as force carrying probability waves. Gravitons have not been detected yet, but would be expected to travel at c and show wave properties. Photon waves store energy at creation and release energy at interaction. Graviton waves at interaction convert + vector gravity force instantly at the current locations of BOTH source and interaction. ps Gravitational lensing can be cited as wave property evidence for gravitons, but what puzzles me is why no reflection, diffraction, interference etc evidence? Also gravitational shielding is expected with probability wave, but problematic in space-time.

Yes light is a probability wave, essentially moving potential energy. Wave quanta from a source radiate forming shells of thickness equal to the quantum vibration length (medium dependant). The shell can be described as a probability wave (pw) for interaction. Interaction evokes a non local action. The probability wave collapses (resets to zero) for all locations referred to that quantum. This is to conserve energy. Also at interaction, all the quantum energy is converted to other energy, possibly including lower energy pw’s.This happens at a single quantum location. Probability waves comprise free photons, gravitons and moving mass. They move at velocity c. They exhibit wave effects, but show different interaction properties.All are subject to non local wave collapse at interaction. Free photons convert energy only at the interaction location. When gravitons interact with mass, energy is converted both at source and interaction location. An additional non local effect is instant + vector gravity force referred to the CURRENT (ie universal) interaction time locations of source and interaction.

To return to the thread. Surely amplitude must be restricted to the magnitude of the peak values of the electric and magnetic fields. Intensity is descriptive of the numbers of photons per second. The amplitude of a photon wave depends on the medium of transmission. A particular energy photon has a range of possible amplitudes dependant only on the medium of transmission. We have no way to modulate the amplitude of a known energy photon in a single medium. So we can not vary this parameter in a photo-emission experiment.What has been investigated is the photon energy and the intensity. It is somewhat confusing that in a given medium,increasing the energy of the photon also increases its amplitude.

Wave energy conversions All energy (mass ,force carrier etc) moves as a wave and converts energy (interacts) at a single quantum location (ql) Waves characteristically have continuously varying field values at frequency u. They are quantised and the quantum energy is hu. Wave quanta from a source radiate forming shells of thickness equal to the quantum vibration length (medium dependant). The shell can be described as a probability wave (pw) for interaction. The quantum energy includes the invariant (generation) energy and a source vector energy component. Consider here that the latter must either be an absolute value (Universal Matrix) or an indeterminate value relative to some future interaction location. Each ql acts as a secondary wave source of the pw. The pw is not a perfect shell because of wave effects like reflection, refraction, diffraction, evanescence, gravity effect etc. Wave effects do not convert energy. Multiple wave effects may act on the pw and they do not change its quantum energy. They will change energy vectors, thus reflection changes all component energies by pi radians. Wave effects suggest that vector information is stored in the pw. Since the information is non varying, it cannot be moving as a coupled or independent wave. The obvious mode of storage is as a polar coordinate referred to a Universal Matrix. Interaction evokes a non local action. The probability wave collapses (resets to zero) for all locations referred to that quantum. This is to conserve energy. Also at interaction, all the quantum energy is converted to other energy, possibly including lower energy pw’s. Probability waves comprise free photons, gravitons and moving mass. They move at velocity c. They share wave effects, but show different interaction properties.All are subject to non local wave collapse at interaction. Free photons convert energy only at the interaction location. When gravitons interact with mass, energy is converted both at source and interaction location. An additional non local effect is instant + vector gravity force referred to the CURRENT (ie universal)interaction time locations of source and interaction.