Re: Cascading Forcefalls

Hexslinger ( hexslngr@internet-frontier.net )
Sun, 15 Feb 1998 22:06:36 -0800 (PST)

On Sun, 15 Feb 1998, Jerry W. Decker wrote:

> I meant to say something about the subject title, 'Graduated Forcefalls'.

Happy now? :)

> A better term is cascade since that is exactly what happens, a kind of
> parametric down conversion, successive divisions of the frequency to
> produce ever lower frequencies...

Which is exactly what I was describing, which is why your previous post
was confusing (unless that last paragraph was about something entirely
unrelated and I just got mistaken).

> Graduation is more precisely a 'tuning' of the mass....

'Tuning'? Oh. It's my fault then. I should've said 'cascading forcefalls'
outright. That was Keely's terminology - I goofed - no wonder I couldn't
understand what the hell you were talking about. <g> So what exactly do
you mean by 'tuning', then?