Posted by Richard Crowley on 09/28/07 14:59

"Dave Platt" wrote ...
> No. No. And, no. You cannot possibly do this... for several reasons.
>
> For one thing, trying to convey 300 bits of information per symbol is
> still grossly optimistic. If you take a look at real-world modulation
> systems (QAM64 and so forth) you'll find that they send much less
> information per symbol... I don't have the best numbers available off
> of the top of my head, but I'd be surprised if there's a system in
> practical use which tries to send more than 16 bits per symbol. The
> amount of noise on real-world communcation channels makes it
> impractical-to-impossible to go much beyond that... and you are
> proposing something *far* beyond that. Trust me - the laws of physics
> in this universe won't permit you to do it.

Perhaps "Radium" should ask his questions over there in
that other universe where *his* laws of physics apply.

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