A Solution Looking for a Problem - Generalised Hallway Switches

Arne Bergstrom^1,

¹B&E Scientific Ltd, BN25 4PA, United Kingdom

Cite this paper:
Arne Bergstrom. A Solution Looking for a Problem - Generalised Hallway Switches. International Journal of Physics. 2015; 3(2):69-73. doi: 10.12691/ijp-3-2-4

Abstract

The properties of hallway switches are discussed with emphasis on how special types of such switch systems with arbitrarily many switches can be constructed and systematically become conducting/nonconducting by simply turning on/off any arbitrary switch in the system, and then become nonconducting/conducting again by turning off/on any arbitrary switch in the system, etc. A question is whether in physics, biology, genetics, economics, sociology, or traffic management, there might exist - or preferably would exist - complex such systems, the global state of which could thus be switched by a local action anywhere in the system and then switched back by another local action anywhere in the system.

Keywords:
arbitrarily large switch systems on/off activation at arbitrary switch applications searched

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