[LAD] Audio Levitation

[R. Mattes]

On Mon, 6 Jan 2014 01:28:58 +1100 (EST), Patrick Shirkey wrote

> IIUC there are some people who understand it very well but the application
> of their knowledge is considered classified so it's not released
> into the public domain if it is even written down anywhere. A bit
> like RSA decryption used to be.

??? Must be good drugs over there ...
>From the Wikipedia article on RSA:

 "The RSA algorithm was publicly described in 1977 by Ron Rivest, Adi
 Shamir, and Leonard Adleman at MIT; the letters RSA are the initials
 of their surnames, listed in the same order as on the paper."

Or do you want to claim that a way to _break_ RSA ("decryption") is
known but not published (i.e. there's a non-quantum algorythm to
solve "prime factorization").

> The funny thing is that the technology that can be created using this
> technique would probably solve the energy crisis if this knowledge
> was allowed to be used for civilian purposes like power stations. It
> would probably also be useful for deep space exploration. ( Avatar
> scale not Hubble scale )

gee, really good drugs ...

> Depends on the fuel used of course. One thing we do know is the
> humble pistol crab can generate impulses with the same heat
> intensity

Over here, impulse is measured in "mass x velocity", neither of which
expresses "heat intensity" (in kelvin?). Care to elaborate?

Cheers and a happy new year

 Ralf Mattes