{"id":414,"date":"2017-12-06T17:07:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T01:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pastorfred.blogsite.org\/?p=414"},"modified":"2026-04-21T07:33:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T14:33:13","slug":"experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodnews.homedns.org\/?p=414","title":{"rendered":"Cardiac Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"org88083b7\" class=\"figure\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sunbot.homedns.org\/~fred\/images\/redplate-rotate.jpg\" alt=\"redplate-rotate.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<pre style=\"font-family:serif;font-size:larger;\">\nWhen the plates turned cherry red\nIt might have been a good time to stop.\nBut how often can you conduct\nAn experiment like this?\n\nI bypassed the fuses\nAnd screwed down the safety cutouts\n\nIt was a nice piece of equipment\nA little unstable at times\nVery sensitive\nAnd yet robust in output\n\nAnd how often do you find someone\nWith a similar piece of equipment\nOne that goes to 11?\nOne that can pick up the star-sounds?\n\nAnd generally you hook up in parallel\nOr even series\nBut not cross connect\nInput to output\n\nEvery engineer knows\nThat positive feedback loops\nAre unstable.\n\nBut the effects were amazing\nThings I'd never seen before\nBoth devices rose to the occasion\n(For a while)\n\nBut eventually\nI smelled a burning smell\nAnd there were some wild fluctuations\nAnd finally the smoke came out\nThe magic smoke\nAnd everything stopped working\n\nAnd now\nI have to pick up the pieces.\nThe output is shot\nThe power supply will probably need\nA complete rebuild\nI certainly don't trust the rectifier\nAs far as I can throw it.\n\nAnd there's a whole subsection\nSensitive detectors\nJust blobs of melted metal\nI may never be able\nTo put that back together\n\nI can only imagine\nThe shape the other device\nMust be in.\n\nWas it worth it?\nEven failed experiments\nTell you something\n\nBut this wasn't a failure\nIt was glorious\n(For a while)\nAnd opened new vistas of inquiry\n\nAnd I really didn't know\nThe equipment could stand\nThat level of strain\nAnd still survive\n(After a fashion)\n\nWill I try it again?\nCan I not?\n\nMust I?\n\n\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Description of a Burnout<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[89],"class_list":["post-414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-burnout","has-excerpt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.homedns.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.homedns.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.homedns.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.homedns.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.homedns.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.homedns.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1589,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.homedns.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions\/1589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.homedns.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.homedns.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.homedns.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}