Skin Effect as Dispersion Prism

Take this “Illumination Effect.”

The supercharged sound image as achieved through the use of the LessLoss Firewall has everything to do with (are you ready for this?) the dispersion phenomenon in wave theory.

A prism's ability to form a rainbow out of white light is nothing more than a wavelength-dependent refractive index, meaning that different wavelengths in the white "noisy" light are bent at different angles.

When we set up the loss-y double-layer skin in the physical electrical configuration used in the Firewall, we were in effect creating a quasi-waveguide for high frequency bandwidths. Our waveguide behaved differently for different frequencies due to the loss differential inherent in the chromatic nature of the skin effect. In other words, nature, by means of the skin effect, had provided us with the prism -- it was up to us to change the loss index so that the naturally occurring effect would be more pronounced -- to the point where we were manipulating Group Velocity.

Group Velocity manipulation through carefully selected materials has been employed by physicists engaged in laser experimentation as long ago as the 1980's. Research using this method has led to the ability to significantly accelerate light, or to slow light down to nearly a standstill. Even Negative Group Velocity is possible, meaning that the signal packet propagates backwards in time. This gives you the wacky predicament that one has output before one gives input! Here is an interesting video to watch.

Of course, information still travels at the speed of light, and no physical particles have ever been observed to exceed the speed of light. We are referring only to wave-phase relationships. That said, the proper manipulative measures have definite practical applications that are of value to the communications industry.

Take fiber optics, for example. A fiber optic line creates a group velocity dispersion in the light frequency pulses that carry information. If this temporal group velocity dispersion is too large, a merging of the information-carrying pulse with adjacent pulses will occur, rendering errors in transmission. The most widely applied solution to this phenomenon is a mixing and matching of optical fibers with opposite sign dispersion characteristics, such that, in the end, the positive and negative dispersion qualities add up and cancel out. This is called dispersion compensation.

In laser optics, the solution is known as a chirped mirror. This is used to compensate for the dispersion characteristics of other optical elements down the line. In other words, because the distortion is linear, meaning predictable, it is possible to "pre-distort" the signal in a negative way with regards to the actual distortion that will eventually take place down the line. Then, when the actual distortion takes place, the signal is in effect placed back together the way it should have been from the beginning.

This, my friends, is the principle used to cancel noise in the high frequency bands in the LessLoss Firewall.

It sounds like a miracle, but it's just wave theory.