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Two weeks ago I was surfing the Internet and ended up on a forum about UFO’s, which I should make clear is a subject about which I am very sceptical. I followed a discussion on whether the US military had conducted analyses of the materials used in the UFO’s that have supposedly crashed on Earth, and if so, where that information could be found. One link lead to another and unexpectedly I gained access to a US Government site that had earlier denied me access. What I discovered at this site was just as interesting as UFO’s.
I learnt that there is a type of copper that has different properties to normal copper. They referred to the “sub atomic” nature of this copper which made it much better for some electronic applications because it avoided what they called “electron falloff”. The words they used to describe this phenomenon were superior “handshake” and “error correction”, which are terms familiar to me from the computer industry. Basically it means that signals or data are transferred with a much lower error rate.
This copper is being used by the US military (of course) but what really got my attention was the comment that it is also found in small sections of the hi-fi industry. The reason for this is interesting. Although this copper is closely controlled due to its military use, the owner of the mine in Zambia where it comes from has had connections to the hi-fi industry for over 30 years. This chap, who has a Scandinavian name that I can’t remember, is known in his country as “the father of hi-fi”.
Other points of interest were:
• Scientists do not yet understand why this copper behaves the way that it does. Uranium and zinc are found in the same mine, which apparently is most unusual, and this may be the cause.
• Scientists have not been able to re-create this copper in the lab.
• This special copper can be added to normal copper at a concentration of less than 1 part per 1000 and it will transfer its properties to the normal copper.
• The only way that this copper can easily be detected is by its behaviour. The sub-atomic nature of the variation means that there is no easy test.
Unfortunately I only had access to the site for one or two minutes before I was cut off so the summary was all I had time to read. There was a lot more information in the body of the document. I was a bit freaked out by the warning I received after being detected so I cleaned up my laptop afterwards. Now that no SWAT team has arrived at my house I could kick myself that I didn’t save the document. However I did learn enough in the little time that I was on-line to make the following educated guesses:
• This copper is probably being used in selected speaker cables and interconnects from a small number of manufacturers, which explains why they sound better. It also explains why they are so expensive.
• Some of you guys out there must know about this. Materials that are used for commercial manufacturing cannot be kept secret for ever. Who are those cable manufacturers?
Also, does anyone know who the Scandinavian father of hi-fi is? It was a name with a “q” in it like Norquist.
I learnt that there is a type of copper that has different properties to normal copper. They referred to the “sub atomic” nature of this copper which made it much better for some electronic applications because it avoided what they called “electron falloff”. The words they used to describe this phenomenon were superior “handshake” and “error correction”, which are terms familiar to me from the computer industry. Basically it means that signals or data are transferred with a much lower error rate.
This copper is being used by the US military (of course) but what really got my attention was the comment that it is also found in small sections of the hi-fi industry. The reason for this is interesting. Although this copper is closely controlled due to its military use, the owner of the mine in Zambia where it comes from has had connections to the hi-fi industry for over 30 years. This chap, who has a Scandinavian name that I can’t remember, is known in his country as “the father of hi-fi”.
Other points of interest were:
• Scientists do not yet understand why this copper behaves the way that it does. Uranium and zinc are found in the same mine, which apparently is most unusual, and this may be the cause.
• Scientists have not been able to re-create this copper in the lab.
• This special copper can be added to normal copper at a concentration of less than 1 part per 1000 and it will transfer its properties to the normal copper.
• The only way that this copper can easily be detected is by its behaviour. The sub-atomic nature of the variation means that there is no easy test.
Unfortunately I only had access to the site for one or two minutes before I was cut off so the summary was all I had time to read. There was a lot more information in the body of the document. I was a bit freaked out by the warning I received after being detected so I cleaned up my laptop afterwards. Now that no SWAT team has arrived at my house I could kick myself that I didn’t save the document. However I did learn enough in the little time that I was on-line to make the following educated guesses:
• This copper is probably being used in selected speaker cables and interconnects from a small number of manufacturers, which explains why they sound better. It also explains why they are so expensive.
• Some of you guys out there must know about this. Materials that are used for commercial manufacturing cannot be kept secret for ever. Who are those cable manufacturers?
Also, does anyone know who the Scandinavian father of hi-fi is? It was a name with a “q” in it like Norquist.
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