Re: fast divider?

Subject	Re: fast divider?
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From	Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com>
Date	2026-04-01 02:04 -0700
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On 03/31/2026 10:05 PM, Bill Sloman wrote:
> On 1/04/2026 4:57 am, john larkin wrote:
>> On Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:41:17 -0700, Buzz McCool
>> <buzz_mccool@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 3/31/2026 8:14 AM, john larkin wrote:
>>>> It is an interesting question: does one understand then invent, or
>>>> invent and then understand? Great scientific and practical ideas seem
>>>> to be mostly invent or discover first, understand after.
>>>
>>> It's been said the steam engine did far more for engineering than
>>> engineering did for the steam engine.
>>
>> Ditto thermodynamics.
>>
>> Einstein's theories of relativity seem to be the rare case of
>> predicting effects before they were observed, some decades before they
>> could be demonstrated.
>
> Einstein general relativity paper was published in 1915. and immediately
> explained the precession pf the orbit of Mercury, which had been
> inexplicable for a century or two.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddington_experiment
>
> happened in 1919, and confirmed another of Einstein's predictions and
> got written up in lots of newspapers, making Einstein an internationally
> famous physicist from then on.
>
> Dirac's prediction of the existence of the positron preceded it's
> discovery by a couple of years. The magnetic monopole has proved more
> elusive.
>

Generously, one way of looking at a "test particle" in the standard
narrative, not that there are any or they're "virtual", is that:
that's a magnetic monopole, and they're pretty much "everywhere".

Then, the "skyrmions" and "spintronics" get involved, ....


People hear so much about magnets, and never electrets, ....

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Re: fast divider? john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-03-27 11:39 -0700
  Re: fast divider? Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-03-28 16:44 +1100
    Re: fast divider? john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-03-28 14:38 -0700
      Re: fast divider? Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-03-29 15:52 +1100
        Re: fast divider? john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-03-29 08:18 -0700
          Re: fast divider? Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-03-30 16:42 +1100
            Re: fast divider? john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-03-30 08:00 -0700
              Re: fast divider? Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-03-31 16:35 +1100
                Re: fast divider? john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-03-31 02:40 -0700
                Re: fast divider? Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-03-31 22:30 +1100
                Re: fast divider? john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-03-31 08:14 -0700
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                Re: fast divider? john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-03-31 10:57 -0700
                Re: fast divider? Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-03-31 14:25 -0700
                Re: fast divider? john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-03-31 15:16 -0700
                Re: fast divider? Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-04-01 16:17 +1100
                Re: fast divider? Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-04-01 16:05 +1100
                Re: fast divider? Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-04-01 02:04 -0700
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                Re: fast divider? Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-04-01 15:54 +1100
                Re: fast divider? john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-04-01 01:06 -0700
                Re: fast divider? Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-04-02 02:13 +1100
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                Re: fast divider? john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-04-02 08:57 -0700
                Re: fast divider? Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-04-03 04:05 +1100
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                Re: fast divider? John R Walliker <jrwalliker@gmail.com> - 2026-04-09 19:07 +0100
                Re: fast divider? john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-04-09 13:47 -0700

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