Re: feedback (was: TURMEL: Money, Interest and Prosperity)

Brian Whatcott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sun, 09 Nov 2003 00:28:36 GMT, "Dan Parker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >"Bill Ryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> >> Where do the looney toons get these ridiculous ideas?
> >> How do they dream them up?  Now Turmel et al. tell us
> >> there is something inherently "exponential" about
> >> "positive" feedback.
> >
> >Umm, I would invite all readers of this thread to
> >google 'positive feedback', and find *one* credible source
> >(university, whatever) that does not make the *obvious*
> >connection that positive feedback, in a mathematical
> >or engineering sense, is of course an exponential formula.
> ///
> 
> Maybe I can help with the concept.
> 
> In a system which shows some losses, supplying positive
> feedback sufficient to make good the losses can provide
> increased gain without destabilizing the system.

I recall doing this back in the old analog computer days.
However, providing positive feedback is a very delicate
action since just a smidgen too much and to the moon...