How traffic lights affect my iPod

[HeavenShallBurn]

This one light, in a particular state, probably has a loose connection or minor short that is causing some electrical arcing - and thus radio noise.

You mean like this?

It's probably an improperly grounded circuit dumping into the metal shell.

 

[Umbran]

You mean like this?

Yes, but without all the stuff about FCC standards making the iPod vulnerable to it.

 

[Galethorn]

Wouldn't it be better to live in a world where weird stuff happens and we just don't know why?

Those of us in the sciences like to ruin it for everyone else. Everyone ignores us, so I think it's all square in the end.

 

[EricNoah]

Those of us in the sciences like to ruin it for everyone else.

I'm so sick of "facts" -- you can use "facts" to prove anything that's even remotely true!

 

[EricNoah]

On a more serious note, now that I'm aware of it I am noticing the phenomenon at certain other intersections as well.

 

[el-remmen]

Wouldn't it be better to live in a world where weird stuff happens and we just don't know why?

No matter how many things "science" figures out we will always live in that world, Eric. . . Even the "reasons" we can determine are just how the universe interacts with our senses and tools (which are an extension of our senses/reason) and needn't remove any of the wonder from just how awesome, bizarre and absurd the cosmos really is. . .

 

[Umbran]

No matter how many things "science" figures out we will always live in that world, Eric. . . Even the "reasons" we can determine are just how the universe interacts with our senses and tools (which are an extension of our senses/reason) and needn't remove any of the wonder from just how awesome, bizarre and absurd the cosmos really is. . .

I find that knowing more increases wonder. For example, I understand quantum mechanics - I can do the math that determines electron orbitals, and that gets you the basic underpinnings of chemistry.

Knowing how it works on that level makes living things downright miraculous. The sheer number of things that have to happen to make something live, the scale of it is astounding....

 

[GeorgeFields]

On a more serious note, now that I'm aware of it I am noticing the phenomenon at certain other intersections as well.

Maybe you should just avoid all intersections....

 

[WhatGravitas]

For example, I understand quantum mechanics...

Understand... or being able to apply?

But that makes it even more miraculous - that it works at all.

Cheers, LT.

 

[EricNoah]

Maybe you should just avoid all intersections....

That is the best advice in this thread.