Black Hole
May contain traces of nut
Beware non-scientists and non-engineers talking out of their arses. Typical forum discussions have at least equal contributions from the uninformed who should keep their traps shut, but who instead muddy the waters and contribute to Internet misinformation because the equally uninformed readers treat the misinformation with equal weight (or often even more, because the misinformation tends to get repeated more than the real information).
(I try to counteract this trend, but it's an uphill battle. Only the other day I got shouted down for correcting misinformation about car batteries - the popular misperception is that if a car is fitted with a "calcium" battery as standard, replacing with a traditional non-calcium lead-acid battery will either fry the battery or fry the electrics. What a load of utter garbage.)
If an electrical connection between two points is so close to error that the occasional bit is corrupted, it is also extremely close to corrupting too many bits for the data link integrity to be maintained. Regardless of error detection/correction, there are still synchronising patterns within the data packet. Considering the data rate required, it's a wonder anything gets to the other end at all.
(I try to counteract this trend, but it's an uphill battle. Only the other day I got shouted down for correcting misinformation about car batteries - the popular misperception is that if a car is fitted with a "calcium" battery as standard, replacing with a traditional non-calcium lead-acid battery will either fry the battery or fry the electrics. What a load of utter garbage.)
If an electrical connection between two points is so close to error that the occasional bit is corrupted, it is also extremely close to corrupting too many bits for the data link integrity to be maintained. Regardless of error detection/correction, there are still synchronising patterns within the data packet. Considering the data rate required, it's a wonder anything gets to the other end at all.