Re: SNR calculations (was Re: setup.exe missing from FTP site)

[Charles Wilson <cygwin at cwilson dot fastmail dot fm>]

Igor Peshansky wrote:

> Even if the diagonal size wasn't less than the diameter of the hole, my
> son, when he was 1 year old, usually just used a hammer.
>
> That, or assume that at the speed of light either the hole or the photon
> will give...

Nah, you guys are all wrong.  A square photon is one whose oscillations 
follow a square-wave pattern rather than sinusoidal.  Thus, by Fourier 
decomposition it can be shown that the square photon is actually 
composed of an infinite sequence of equal-or-higher-frequency "regular" 
sinusoidal ones.  So: a square photon actually has /higher/ energy 
content than a regular photon with the same fundamental frequency: in 
the limit, it has infinite energy.  Say, maybe we could harness one of 
these suckers to solve the world's greenhouse gas emission issues by 
eliminating dependence on hydrocarbons.  Boy, Big Oil won't like that 
idea -- HEY -- WHO ARE YOU GUYS -- LET ME GO -- WHAT ARE YOU DOI