Interesting developments on the "science and engineering meet cables" front (seriously)

Hot of the 'presses' (well... the internet, since this year's meeting was - of course - virtual), an interesting presentation on some 'hard science' studies on the historically more 'black magic' aspects of wire.

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  • delkal
    delkal Posts: 764
    You have to be careful with papers like that. Not saying it is not true.....just that as a scientist I know there are a lot of junk papers out there and i would I would treat this convention paper as one of them.

    Audio patents can be even worse. Patent reviewers just check claims and do not reproduce the science. And all a patent means is that no one else can sell it (not that it works or is useful). There are a lot of patents that are total BS but companies pay the money to get them approved. Then they claim their widget has to work. After all there is a patent for it.
  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 49,784
    No one will ever convince a cable naysayer. They wouldn't admit cables make a difference even if they heard a difference.
    Political Correctness'.........defined

    "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."


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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    Short paper. One paragraph.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,022
    edited June 2020
    That's the abstract.
    Not ethical for me to reproduce the whole presentation.