Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site oddjob.UChicago.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!oddjob!matt From: matt@oddjob.UChicago.UUCP (Matt Crawford) Newsgroups: net.astro Subject: Re: Large sources of short period pulses Message-ID: <301@oddjob.UChicago.UUCP> Date: Thu, 21-Jun-84 22:02:37 EDT Article-I.D.: oddjob.301 Posted: Thu Jun 21 22:02:37 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 23-Jun-84 02:33:42 EDT References: <68800001@hpfcrx.UUCP> Organization: U. Chicago: Astronomy & Astrophysics Lines: 8 We must assume that the photons do not scatter from the atoms in the lasing body. In this case, the light received by a distant observer all comes from a small patch of surface, not the entire sphere. I guess this *is* a large source with short period, but the non-scattering requirement is very unplausible. ___________________________________________________________ Matt University ARPA: crawford@anl-mcs.arpa Crawford of Chicago UUCP: ihnp4!oddjob!matt