Please Explain: LTE

What is Long Term Evolution and how is it going to change your life?

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Science & Technology

[johnnytoogood007]

"I can fly." - Tony Stark.

[johnnytoogood007]

OK, that last post was kind of "wishy-washy".

[johnnytoogood007]

Is light a wave, or a particle? And if a wave, what medium does it propagate through?

Are electromagnetic waves a disturbance in the space-time field continuum? Are

radio waves in fact, the micro-equivalent of gravity waves? Is anti-gravity drive possible?

Or perhaps there is no ether, for light is neither a wave nor a particle, but both. A

PARADOX is of TWO statements, BOTH true, but which appear to contradict each other.

Defining words such as paradox, correctly, is key to understanding.

[johnnytoogood007]

It is said that the Michelson-Morley experiment proved that light (and other

electromagnetic waves) did not travel through an ether (the way ripples

on a pond travel through water). But I would argue that those conclusions

are inconclusive since a key assumption of the Michelson-Morley experiment

was that the earth is a giant rotating sphere, a planet, which it clearly is not.

[johnnytoogood007]

If you transmit data as LTE, you will need an LTE receiver. An LTE smartphone

cannot "descramble" a WIMAX signal. For media content companies, this

"lock-key" approach to transmitting the internet means that it will be easier for

them to discern who is downloading what. That's my guess... As for modelling

light as sphagetti, well, waves have to propagate through some kind of medium,

right? Rather than call it pasta, how about, "the ether"?

[johnnytoogood007]

The Information SuperHighWay: "Dang, they done put me in the slow lane, again".

Text Messaging Guy: "How can you tell?"...

""Bluetooth 1080i megapixels" (blue-ray, hi-def movies) is the new media content,

and it is slowing things down. But on purpose? The newer movies take up more

"space" (are of greater file size) than the old dvd movies.

[johnnytoogood007]

Sorry, I meant to write, "LTE is the answer to corporate media PIRACY concerns".

[johnnytoogood007]

To recap, my guess (or "working theory"): LTE1 (700 mHz) vs. LTE2 (2.5gHz)..

Think of LTE as a hardware (rather than a software) based encryption-decryption

scheme. LTE HAS LITTLE, OR NOTHING, TO DO WITH DOWNLOAD (OR UPLOAD)

SPEED. Data Throughput ("speed") is a function of both wavelength (=c/f) and

bandwidth (range of frequencies). LTE is the answer to corporate media privacy

concerns.

[johnnytoogood007]

So, what is LTE? A hardware-based encryption-decryption scheme?

This "Punjabi" has his doubts, but it does sound good, "on paper", in

theory. (The character Calandra, on 'The Good Wife' is played by an

actress named, Archie Punjabi).... Stay off the grid, for the less they

know about you, the better... And to Zoe Rushforth from U of Waterloo.

Nope, not Albert Wong. Guess again.

[johnnytoogood007]

Light waves are not like sphagetti. You cannot divide light signals into infinitesimal

amounts, but like the Greek poet Democritus' (sp?) idea of "the atom" (the smallest

indivisible particle of matter), the photon is to energy what the atom is to matter.

So, think of a photon as being the equivalent of one complete wavelength... Hence,

one wavelength can represent '0', and two wavelengths can represent '1'. Remember

the story of Paul Revere? He may have been history's first "bi-nar".