Ethernet Cables, do they make a difference?

John Archibald Wheeler and Kip Thorne wrote the definitive book on the subject of gravity many years ago, Gravitation, 1973, 1336 pages. Everybody and his brother now knows that gravity is actually the warping or distorting of spacetime as a consequence of mass. That’s the reason the LIGO Project detected gravity waves a couple years ago. It detected gravity waves created by a merger of two monster size black holes. The LIGO sensors detect ripples in spacetime. The head of the LIGO Project for most of its life was Kip Thorne, former student of Wheeler and co-author of Gravitation.

Addendum for the advanced student: Considering the notion that positrons were electrons that were traveling backwards in time, Wheeler came up in 1940 with his one-electron universe postulate: that there was in fact only one electron, bouncing back and forth in time. His graduate student while was a professor at Princeton, Richard Feynman, found this hard to believe, but the idea that positrons were electrons traveling backwards in time intrigued him and Feynman incorporated the notion of the reversibility of time into his Feynman diagrams.[24]

With Neils Bohr Wheeler helped explain nuclear fission.

@jinjuku what do you mean by 60% reliability?
what kind of tests did you run?

@acepilot71:

William chose the testing format. I randomly generated a sequence of cable swap out. William went with either listening to an entire track or part of a track.

He only obtained 60% accuracy of stating what cable was in use. Which means he was also in error 40% of the the time.

No. They work or they don't.  End of conversation.

Just as a matter of fact, ethernet doesn't always use TCP/IP because there isn't really a "TCP/IP" protocol. Those are two different protocols for two different layers of the software interface. In all likelihood, it's using TCP/FTP.

You have a gross misunderstanding. There is indeed a TCP/IP protocol. It's transmission control protocol over internet protocol. UDP/IP is also a protocol. Ethernet isn't any one protocol. It's made up of many moving parts and the abstraction it provides up/down stream layers is why it's so robust, reliable, and elegant.

There is no such thing as TCP/FTP because FTP doesn't live at layer 3. It's layer 7 (application).

It seems to me that what has been largely overlooked in this discussion (with the exception of the brief post by Markalarsen) is the fact that 100% of the energy of an electrical signal, especially one that as in the case of Ethernet contains spectral components at very high RF frequencies, does not necessarily go only where it is supposed to go. Experienced designers of high speed digital circuits (of which I happen to be one) will recognize that.

And given that a number of members here who are highly respected and highly experienced

And I encourage and invite every last one of you to, in your own setup, to evaluate some spec meeting, but very inexpensive, CAT5e/6 to your own esoteric CAT5e/6 cabling.

I’ll provide a client, server, layer 3 managed switch with a LAG setup for dynamic LACP.

Of course you will not be allowed to know which cable is being used.