Path: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Is Intel exceptionally unsuccessful as an architecture designer? Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 23:54:28 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 12 Message-ID: References: <2935676af968e40e7cad204d40cafdcf@www.novabbs.org> <2024Sep18.074007@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <2024Sep18.220953@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <86jzf4829c.fsf@linuxsc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2024 01:54:29 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="d676190ddbdcb7173a64dc657b0df900"; logging-data="3563653"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX193sOsIbAnFyydaV9PLaS4B" User-Agent: Pan/0.160 (Toresk; ) Cancel-Lock: sha1:z3fTElQnbPnaIFU6yxT3nISnpyo= Bytes: 2089 On Tue, 24 Sep 2024 03:17:48 -0000 (UTC), Brett wrote: > But light creates charge, and charge attraction, > and discharge creates magnetic fields ... Fun fact: light is already a travelling electromagnetic field -- about as pure as you can get. So you can leave out the mumbo-jumbo to get from “light” to “field”. Further fun fact: it has long been known that, if matter were held together purely by electromagnetic fields, it would be unstable and collapse.