OT: Alien Media (was Disasters and Recovery)

From: Philip.Belben_at_pgen.com <(Philip.Belben_at_pgen.com)>
Date: Wed Jan 20 09:17:57 1999

>> extremes, things like the definition of a volt may be needed...
>
> :-)... Possibly.. I think that might be going a bit far. I would hope
> some other electrical books had survived.
>
> If not, how would you define a 'volt'? In terms of the steps on a
> microwave-excited Josephson Junction? It's reproducable, and
> frequency/time is also easy to define.

I was thinking of defining it in terms of a bandgap, such as used in
precision reference "diodes".

I'd like to define it in terms of SI units, but the Kilogram is not too
easy (yet).

Philip.
Received on Wed Jan 20 1999 - 09:17:57 GMT