readme.txt

Copyright Sean Logan 2011.
This documentation describes Open Hardware and is licensed under the CERN 
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This documentation describes an electromagnetic resonator.

Its physical dimensions, and thus the wavelengths at which it is resonant, 
are based on a set of logarithms.  The base of logarithms used in this 
design was called by Euclid "The Extreme and Mean Ratio".  It is equal to 
( ( 1 + sqrt(5)) / 2 ) = 1.61803...

This number has many unique properties, even an entire mathematics journal 
devoted to its study.  For our purposes, we are interested in what happens 
when waves, whose frequencies are proportional to consecutive integer 
powers of this number, heterodyne.  We are interested in the set of 
sidebands, or "heterodynes" thus created.  A more in-depth examination of 
what happens is given in the "Math and Theory" section of this 
documentation.  A geometric series of wavelengths is created.

This device can be scaled to any size, and thus resonate at any frequency.


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