Just to play cynic - arent the movements of electrons in the wire that we're dealing with here also acting in those same time and space domains?
Bryan
Electrons move at mm per second speeds from one end of the conductor to the other. They typically traverse 10 to 100 atomic lattice spaces prior to a collision which releases it's momentum energy. And, there are LOTS of them.
If you examine the article, they are saying that the plasmon lives for femptoseconds. At the speed of light, that is a millionth of a foot.. The effective distance the plasmon is detected at is nanometers, again, atomic distances.
A signal travelling along a wire pair exerts it's influence at the centimeter scale, 7 orders of magnitude farther reaching than a plasmon.
Why worry about a "possible" effect 7 orders of magnitude below ones that are
not even understood in the audio world to begin with? How many times are we going to hear, for example, about skin effect "smearing", when the analysis upon which that assumption was made was so incorrect??
It is not justified to just grab some concepts from a scientific paper and say they apply to "wires sounding different".
Out of context scientific explanations do not provide a service to the audiophile community, rather they divert from advancement.
Cheers, John
