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Bill Ward
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Hi,
That’s great Alex.

Considering that once anything glows, it’ll give off a “spectrum”, I wonder just how much the entry conditions affect the spectrum as I record it?
In real life so many variables and assumptions come into play. There’s a huge amount of theoretical work out there but as far as I can tell it still just boils down to observing and seeing what we get under any given conditions!

Certainly the ones that seem to crumble away at lower speeds are fascinating. This is the project that the old WATECS, I mentioned elsewhere, will be turned to…. eventually.

Bill.