What is a Note?
Here are the Notes on EMP and Related Subjects edited by Dr. Carl E. Baum. These were started in 1964 by Dr. Ralph Partridge of Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory with the first several of the Sensor and Simulation Notes. This was begun as a means of rapid communication between workers in the EMP (Nuclear Electromagnetic Pulse) community in the United States and Britain. As such it can be considered as some kind of informal journal of the EMP community. A Note may be very brief (a few pages) or quite lengthy (over 100 pages), giving a new idea, an analysis of an old problem, or whatever. The essence is informality and speed of communication. Noting that Lieutenant Carl E. Baum of the Air Force Weapons Laboratory was writing the largest number of Notes, Dr. Partridge turned the editorship over to him after just a few years. Since the beginning the Notes have expanded to many more series as can be seen here. The number of Notes is approaching 2,000. Over the years various series were added
A note is the kind of communication you usually do by letter. It is generally longer than a message. A more important difference between messages and notes is that a person does not have to be logged on to receive a note, as is true with messages. A note is stored by the system until the person is ready to read it.
