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Walter Russel was a friend of Tesla.. his cosmology makes for good reading.. especially for our Electric Universe acolytes.. https://archive.org/details/WalterRussellTheSecretOfLight
Hang on Bryce.. let me go find some notes.. i’ll be right back..

With the explosion of video content, people want to remain glued to their screens. However, low internet speeds often play the spoilsport. As a result, users demand faster data transmission and more reliable network services from the telecom carriers. This demand has laid the foundation for 5G, the next generation of communications technology.

To achieve this, wireless communication engineers must design a set of entirely new technologies. These technologies will allow the latency of 5G data transmission to be less than one millisecond (compared to the about 70-millisecond latency of existing 4G networks) and achieve a peak data download speed of 20 Gbit/s (compared to 1 Gbit/s for 4G).

It is still unclear what technologies will play the crucial role in the development of 5G over the long term, but there are already some early contenders. These technologies include :

Millimeter Waves (Millimeter wave (also millimeter band) is the band of spectrum between 30 gigahertz (Ghz) and 300 Ghz),

Small Base Stations : Wireless infrastructure today includes many elements – macro base stations, metro cells, outdoor and indoor distributed antenna systems (or DAS), small cells and more – all working together in a heterogeneous network, or HetNet) (https://www.qorvo.com/design-hub/blog/small-cell-networks-and-the-evolution-of-5g)

Massive MIMO : MIMO stands for Multiple-input multiple-output. While it involves multiple technologies, MIMO can essentially be boiled down to this single principle: a wireless network that allows the transmitting and receiving of more than one data signal simultaneously over the same radio channel, typically using a separate antenna for the transmitting and receiving of each data signal. Standard MIMO networks tend to use two or four antennas to transmit data and the same number to receive it. Massive MIMO, on the other hand, is a MIMO system with an especially high number of antennas.
(It should be noted, too, that Massive MIMO networks will utilise beamforming technology, enabling the targeted use of spectrum.)
Massive MIMO technology is already live commercially in China and Japan within a 4G LTE context. The latter country’s Softbank network deployed the first ever commercial Massive MIMO network towards the end of 2016. (Softbank is a Saudi Arabian funded technology slush fund…who’s having a bit of overspill from the Kashoggi situation.. https://edition.cnn.com/2018/10/15/tech/softbank-stock-saudi-arabia/index.html)

Full Duplex : In a full-duplex system, both parties can communicate with each other simultaneously.

Beamforming : Beamforming or spatial filtering is a signal processing technique used in sensor arrays for directional signal transmission or reception. Beamforming can be used for radio or sound waves. (which Tesla would have us understand as being the same thing..) It has found numerous applications in radar, sonar, seismology, wireless communications, radio astronomy, acoustics and biomedicine. Adaptive beamforming is used to detect and estimate the signal of interest at the output of a sensor array by means of optimal (e.g. least-squares) spatial filtering and interference rejection.

Today’s wireless networks face one critical challenge: the increasing number of users and devices are consuming more data than ever before. Still, the telecom carriers have to restrict them to the same radio spectrum frequency band that they have always used. This means that each user is allocated a limited amount of bandwidth, leading to slower speeds and frequent disconnections.

As the number of devices connected to wireless networks increases, the shortage of frequency band resources will become even more prominent. We continue to share the limited bandwidth of an extremely narrow spectrum. This has a major impact on user experience.

Millimeter waves, also known as extremely high frequency (EHF), is a band of radio frequencies that is well suited for 5G networks. Compared to the frequencies below 5 GHz previously used by mobile devices, millimeter wave technology allows transmission on frequencies between 30 GHz and 300 GHz. These frequencies are called millimeter waves because they have wavelengths between 1 mm and 10 mm, while the wavelengths of the radio waves currently used by smartphones are mostly several dozen centimeters.

So far, only radar systems and satellites use millimeter waves. However, now some mobile network providers have also started using millimeter waves (for example, to transmit data between two fixed points, such as base stations). Nonetheless, the use of millimeter wave frequencies to connect mobile users to nearby base stations is an entirely new approach.

People are just one projected part of the many users of 5G networks. Autonomous vehicles will need that 1-ms latency of 5G networks to safely steer through traffic and maintain awareness of the traffic around them by means of vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications. In addition, potentially billions of Internet of Things (IoT) sensors may be adding their data contributions to 5G networks within the next decade, giving people instant access to information about different things and environments around them. Due to this projected massive bandwidth consumption, developers see mmWave frequencies providing the bandwidth to make 5G possible.

However, there are many reasons why mmWave equipment has remained within astronomy, military, and research applications for so many years, beyond the high cost of the components and the relative scarcity of test equipment for aligning and evaluating the hardware. Electromagnetic (EM) energy at those higher frequencies suffers a great deal of path loss through the air (especially through air with high humidity) compared to lower-frequency signals with longer wavelengths.

Signals at 24 GHz and above can be absorbed by any objects in their propagating path, such as buildings, trees, even the hand of someone holding the smartphone that’s sending the mmWave signals to a cell site to connect with a listener. But mmWave frequencies also have benefits, in addition to the generous bandwidths they offer, such as their use of much smaller antennas (to fit those smaller wavelengths) compared to lower frequencies. The small size of these antennas makes it possible to pack many of them together into small form factors to benefit from antenna arrays.

Architecturally Speaking…

The architecture of 5G networks will be much different than earlier wireless-network generations, in part because of the use of mmWave frequencies. Smaller antennas will be used in mobile handsets to transmit and receive those higher-frequency signals but, as noted, the propagation distances for mmWave frequencies is less than for signals at the lower frequencies traditionally used in cellular networks.

As a result, 5G network infrastructure must be erected with many more, smaller cell sites or base stations than lower-frequency wireless networks
In addition, within those smaller cells, many antennas will be used to produce three-dimensional (3D) antenna beams, as part of a process known as beamforming.

It is a technology that has long been in use by the military as part of phased-array radar systems, to create and direct high-energy pulses for reflection from a target. In 5G systems, multiple-element antennas in closely spaced, smaller base stations will use hundreds of antenna elements to form directional beams for transmission and to receive similar 3D beams from adjacent base stations. A user with a mobile handset will have an antenna array with much fewer elements, possibly around 30 within a battery-powered mobile device, to send and receive signals within microwave and mmWave frequency bands

The infrastructure for 5G wireless networks will employ many more closely spaced base stations than earlier wireless networks, to support the shorter propagation distances of mmWave signals.

Forward-looking companies such as Qualcomm, Skyworks, and Ericsson have been at work on 5G components and subsystems for some time. Qualcomm has worked closely with the 3GPP on developing its 5G NR standard as a means of cost-effectively incorporating mmWave technology into compact 5G base stations and mobile handsets. It will do so using 3D beamforming and multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) antenna techniques.

The company has developed smart, closed-loop algorithms for beam switching, steering, and tracking to maximize the amount of energy transmitted and received between 5G access points at mmWave frequencies. These algorithms look for reflected energy when a mmWave line-of-sight (LOS) signal path is blocked by a building or other obstruction, and combine the signal energy from alternative signal paths into the maximum received signal energy.

Extensive over-the-air (OTA) testing of prototype 5G NR base station units and mobile devices has been conducted, even within vehicles moving at speeds to 30 mph, and reliable communications at mmWave frequencies were achieved even through the walls of buildings.
Advances in semiconductor and integrated-circuit (IC) technologies will play major roles in the development of affordable integrated and modular circuit solutions for 5G base stations and mobile devices, especially with the complexity of mmWave antennas and radio circuits. Components for mmWave frequencies, both active and passive, have traditionally been expensive—even the coaxial connectors (depending upon frequency) for hybrid circuits were precision machined and expensive. But the imminent buildup of 5G networks and its expanding contingent of mobile devices has brought a new awareness to the high-frequency industry concerning the need for more cost-effective components, circuit materials, and test instruments for frequencies above 24 GHz.

So yeh.. beamforming and closed loop algorithms for beam switching will ensure that everyone will be an antenna.. Have you looked into superconducteurs and antennas? Pyramidons are antenna receviers.. Pyramids are antenna transmitters.. Golod can show you this.

EEG frequency bands include Gamma (higher than 30Hz); Beta (14-30Hz); Alpha (7.5-
13Hz); Theta (3.5-7.5Hz); and Delta (less than4Hz). Their ranges overlap one another along the frequency spectrum by 0.5 Hz or more. Schumann’s resonance forms a natural
feedback loop with the human mind/body.