Text: Presently, the only basic definition of modulation simply states, when one wave modulates another, the two lock together in one fashion or another as a single, more complex wave. When such a complex wave is demodulated, the two locked-together waves are separated from each other to become independent waves again. the exact mechanism by means of which modulation and demodulation occur have heretofore been totally unknown, although the results have been readily describable mathematically.

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