The Myth Of Interference

[Ed Hansberry]

http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/03/12/spectrum/index.html

"Internet architect David Reed explains how bad science created the broadcast industry." Who is David Reed? "You may recognize him as the author of what's come to be known as Reed's Law -- which says the true value of a network isn't determined by the number of individual nodes it connects (Metcalfe's Law) but by the far higher number of groups it enables."

This is a fantastic article. Print it out, Repligo it to your Pocket PC, whatever. There are several interesting links in the article itself, like End-to-End Arguments In System Design (http://www.reed.com/Papers/EndtoEnd.html), so print those out as well. Grab a hot cup of coffee, a large cup, and enjoy.

[Fishie]

Intresting read, thanks.

[Weyoun6]

It sounds like something Lawrence Lessig would say. He was talking about stuff like this in The future of Ideas

[yada88]

This is a great informative article which I found EXTREMELY interesting. Anyone interested in any type of technology should definitely read this.

Jeff

[CESkins]

Ed thanks for pointing out that article. It was a great read. I do disagree somewhat with one point raised in the article about light waves not interfering. Based on my limited knowledge of quantum physics, photons exhibit wave-particle duality meaning that they sometimes behave like waves and other times like particles. Waves can cancel each other out if the trough of one wave of the right amplitude and frequency meets the crest of another wave so that the net amplitude is zero. This would create an interference pattern.

[JohnnyFlash]

I do disagree somewhat with one point raised in the article about light waves not interfering..

All you need is a diffration grating (or a laser pointer and a CD-ROM) to see light interferring..