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- From: ramsay@unixg.ubc.ca (Keith Ramsay)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: One Ramsay error in no-go FTL
- Date: 19 Nov 1992 02:59:02 GMT
- Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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- In article <Bxw26v.M72@well.sf.ca.us> sarfatti@well.sf.ca.us
- (Jack Sarfatti) writes:
- >Ramsay writes:
- >
- >"If f and g differed only by a phase, then there would be
- >constructive and/or destructive interference everywhere, uniformly,
- >according to what that phase difference was."
-
- ...and Sarfatti goes on to point out, correctly, that if the phase
- difference is +- pi/2, it is neither constuctive nor destructive
- anywhere (but still uniformly).
-
- Keith Ramsay
- ramsay@unixg.ubc.ca
-