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i was just wondering how the ultraviolet catastrophe came up with their name. isn't it some advanced physics principle or something. i haven't gone that far yet in my pursuits of academia to know for certain... is their background in phyics as well? i'm sure jon d. can answer this one. manish

quoted 4 lines i was just wondering how the ultraviolet catastrophe came up with their name.

>i was just wondering how the ultraviolet catastrophe came up with their name. >isn't it some advanced physics principle or something. i haven't gone that >far yet in my pursuits of academia to know for certain... is their background >in phyics as well?

it's a physics thing. classical physics predicted a certain model of black body radiation which was observed to be incorrect for the ultraviolet area of the spectrum. nobody could figure it out, hence it became an ultraviolet catastrophe. max planck solved it when he invented quantum mechanics. i'm sure i've got one or more important details wrong (as usual). mike will probably follow this one up correcting me... :)

quoted 1 line i'm sure jon d. can answer this one.

>i'm sure jon d. can answer this one.

mike actually suggested the name. my suggestion was "Matrix 6". /j/

quoted 2 lines mike actually suggested the name. my suggestion was "Matrix 6".

> mike actually suggested the name. my suggestion was "Matrix 6". >

Heh, another "Prodigy" "Opus III" "Sequential" "*303*" etc,etc... ^\ /^ | notice wildcard! :) Jon, have you reviewed the new Violet Arcana, yet? It's 68000 (Jeremy Wells) and some other dude... Wells is on the net at netcom...with his some samples on FTP too. It's supposed to be "a cross between Future Sound of London and This Mortal Coil" but when I listened to the sample, it reminded me of T42 or Information Society!! Is that a joke or what? FSOL+4AD=VA? NOT! -DJKC

djkc <djkc@blkbox.com> writes:

quoted 3 lines Jon, have you reviewed the new Violet Arcana, yet?

> Jon, have you reviewed the new Violet Arcana, yet? > It's 68000 (Jeremy Wells) and some other dude... Wells is on the net at > netcom...with his some samples on FTP too.

You can probably also get through to Jeremy at clingklang@aol.com

quoted 5 lines It's supposed to be "a cross between Future Sound of London and This Mortal

> It's supposed to be "a cross between Future Sound of London and This Mortal > Coil" but when I listened to the sample, it reminded me of T42 or Information > Society!! Is that a joke or what? > > FSOL+4AD=VA? NOT!

I haven't heard VA, so I can't comment on it, but I can say that Jeremy's "Technocolor" album is still one of my favorite albums, and it's a clear level above 90% of the stuff being made today. Anyone who likes complex analogue techno (not just someone hitting two buttons on a 303 and 909) should check it out. I assume you mean the new song samples are on the netcom FTP site too? - Dan |=|=|=|=\=|=\=|=\=|=\=|=\=|=/=|=/=|=/=|=/=|=|=|=|-------------------------- The 8-BIt Collective - Transmission 23 - edrone dan nicholson, Clonor the Other - Finnish Techno Zyndicate 8bit@vlad.bowker.com -=>ICBM volume one available soon!<=- moddan@vlad.bowker.com "This message has been sent out - did you originate it?"

dan nicholson sez:

quoted 5 lines I haven't heard VA, so I can't comment on it, but I can say that Jeremy's

>I haven't heard VA, so I can't comment on it, but I can say that Jeremy's >"Technocolor" album is still one of my favorite albums, and it's a clear >level above 90% of the stuff being made today. Anyone who likes complex >analogue techno (not just someone hitting two buttons on a 303 and 909) >should check it out.

just a contrasting opinion: i think "technocolor" is completely lame, repetitive, unimaginative, badly programmed, badly written, badly conceived, badly executed and just plain Not Good. his track on "50 years of sunshine" is actually pretty good though, so i wouldn't totally write him off just based on "technocolor". Jon Drukman | jdrukman%dlsun87@oracle.com | http://cyborganic.com/~jsd/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.

quoted 3 lines I assume you mean the new song samples are on the netcom FTP site too?

> > I assume you mean the new song samples are on the netcom FTP site too? >

Yep. FTP netcom.com::/pub/arcana Pictures too!

i was just wondering how the ultraviolet catastrophe came up with their name. isn't it some advanced physics principle or something. i haven't gone that far yet in my pursuits of academia to know for certain... is their background in phyics as well? The ultraviolet catastrophe was a name for the mismatch between the predicted curve for a black body radiator and the actual curve. One theory had the curve going upwards in the UV wavelengths, whereas a true black body radiator maxes out. The resolution to the equation that predicted black body radiation was done by Max Planck who modified the equation by twiddling with it mathematically until it worked out. The resolution to the reason behind these twiddles lead to the modern theory of quantum mechanics. I love the name too BTW. Regards, Albert Boulanger aboulanger@bbn.com