[TML] Personal Armor Noise was Re: Current USAF fleet

[Timothy Little]

On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 12:07:25PM -0400, Jerry W Barrington wrote:
> Interestingly, I found a major flaw with that article.  First they
> say they want it "defined in terms of a fundamental constant of
> nature so anyone anywhere can reproduce them".  Then talking about
> the sphere, they say "The only people who can make [it] are our
> colleagues at CSIRO's ACPO".  Seems to kind of defeat the point.

What that article is saying is that the proposed silicon reference can
be made by anyone with sufficient equipment and expertise.  However as
of this moment, only the ACPO have the expertise to produce a suitably
precise reference.  In future there may, and almost certainly will, be
more groups capable of that.


- Tim