Talk:Canonical oscillator

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I have been asked to provide physical examples of the canonical oscillator. Any clock will do,you have two states tick and tock with a closed loop so tick leads to tock and tock to tick,so there is a change of sign and a closed loop, also a source of power,the spring. I think the piece has the merit of throwing light on one of Zeno's paradoxes so it must be of interest to the classical scholar and the philosopher. In addition the teaching at school physics uses pendulums ( actually pendula ) and then get embroiled in trigonometric functions. My version is much clearer since as you continue to read around the loop you can see it going tick and tock. There are numerous oscillators in medecine,the heart beat,respiration and the periodic fever in malaria which i was the first to elucidate. What my idea implies is that if you discover a periodic activity such as the flashing of fire flies you have not thoroughly understood it until you have clearly identified the three elements i have specified. Something which makes an idea easier to grasp is very valuable and is in the true spirit of Wikipedia long may it reign. Wikipedia now contains millions of articles scanning them to exclude any original ideas like mine must be an impossible task,long may you fail.

Keeping in mind that Google is not everything, I note that it does not turn up any usage of "canonical oscillator" in this sense - instead it seems to have a more specific technical meaning when it is used. FreplySpang (talk) 05:55, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Respiration is not an oscillator. People can hold their breath. Gazpacho

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[1] I did not intend the canonical oscillator to be restricted to sinusoidal oscillations,perhaps I should have written the canonical periodic function perhaps. I derived it from zeno 'I am a Cretan and all Cretans are liars'. This is arguably equivalent to. Statement one,statement two is true now read statement two. Statement two,statement one is false,now read statement one. This is presumably the simplest system which can oscillate like a multivibrator for example,so if you discover something such as the heart beat you have not thoroughly understood it until you can identify. 1 a closed loop. 2 a change in sign. 3 a source of power to drive it. If this gets edited much more it will take the form. Tis ,tis'nt,tis,tis'nt,etc