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Sure some of the concepts in science are flawed and have been proven wrong in the past, and will be proven wrong in the future, but that happens how? with proof. So if mainstream science is wrong, then prove it. If there's no proof then why is this thread in the science forum?
Originally posted by The Matrix Traveller
But anyway you are quite able to check this out at home.
If you are able to find the time and construct a simple experiment yourself.
The experiments are not difficult to set up…
You only require a prism and a few other odds and ends.
Just follow what I have described in the Thread.
Let me know what you find by trying this yourself ???
Don't rely on others, but try it yourself.
If you don't you may never know ???
An optical illusion (also called a visual illusion) is characterized by visually perceived images that differ from objective reality. The information gathered by the eye is processed in the brain to give a percept that does not tally with a physical measurement of the stimulus source. There are three main types: literal optical illusions that create images that are different from the objects that make them, physiological ones that are the effects on the eyes and brain of excessive stimulation of a specific type (brightness, tilt, color, movement), and cognitive illusions where the eye and brain make unconscious inferences.
In 1894 Lowell chose Flagstaff, Arizona Territory as the home of his new observatory. At an altitude of over 2100 meters (7000 feet), with few cloudy nights, and far from city lights, Flagstaff was an excellent site for astronomical observations. This marked the first time an observatory had been deliberately located in a remote, elevated place for optimal seeing.
For the next fifteen years he studied Mars extensively, and made intricate drawings of the surface markings as he perceived them. Lowell published his views in three books: Mars (1895), Mars and Its Canals (1906), and Mars As the Abode of Life (1908). With these writings, Lowell more than anyone else popularized the long-held belief that these markings showed that Mars sustained intelligent life forms.
The existence of canal-like features would not be definitively disproved until Mariner 4 took the first close-up pictures of Mars in 1965, and Mariner 9 orbited and mapped the planet in 1972. Today, the surface markings taken to be canals are regarded as an optical illusion.[12]
Although Lowell was better known for his observations of Mars, he also drew maps of the planet Venus. Lowell observed spoke-like features and a central dark spot, yet it is now known that Venus' atmosphere is opaque. In an article published in Sky and Telescope in July 2003, it was suggested that in fact Lowell was observing an image of the blood vessels in his own eye.
Originally posted by Fromabove
When light hits an object such as a prism or a glass of water, it slows ever so slightly, but the second it emerges it immediately travels at the constant.
Light changes speed as it moves from one medium to another (for example, from air into the glass of the prism).
When light enters materials, its energy is absorbed. In the case of transparent materials, this energy is quickly re-radiated. However, this absorption and re-radiation introduces a delay. As light propagates through dielectric material it undergoes continuous absorption and re-radiation. Therefore the speed of light in a medium is said to be less than c, which should be read as the speed of energy propagation at the macroscopic level. At an atomic level, electromagnetic waves always travel at c in the empty space between atoms.
Originally posted by The Matrix Traveller
reply to post by Arbitrageur
Most of us are very aware of what you have written.
I respect what you have written But……
Take a look at this link and Note the LAST 20% of the cartoon.
www.youtube.com...
Science has found that LIGHT appears to be AWARE ????
Please explain your beliefs regarding this Phenomena.
It means a lot more to say "Science is wrong, and here's proof", like Einstein did.
Originally posted by The Matrix Traveller
reply to post by Arbitrageur
It means a lot more to say "Science is wrong, and here's proof", like Einstein did.
And do you really believe his theories will never ever be replaced by other ???
In another 10,000 years do you think we will still hold the beliefs of today ???
Originally posted by Epsillion70
Hey folks great input on this thread as I am a student here and would like to know more. I liked the double Slit experiment as it put everything in laymans terms and actually validated some of my own personal understandings that I have of light and it made me understand the whole understanding of the original experiment a lot better
Also I found this Vid interesting in that it goes it more understanding of The original "What the Bleep do we know" Double slit experiment
The most baffling part of this experiment comes when only one photon at a time is fired at the barrier with both slits open. The pattern of interference remains the same, as can be seen if many photons are emitted one at a time and recorded on the same sheet of photographic film. The clear implication is that something with a wavelike nature passes simultaneously through both slits and interferes with itself — even though there is only one photon present.
Originally posted by The Matrix Traveller
Do you know the persons credentials in the movie ??? I would be interested to know….
I may take another look…
Educational background: Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University.
Roman Catholicism, agnosticism, Hinduism Light, Transcendental Meditation, Buddhism, Ethnobotany, Fundamentalist Christianity, atheism, and most recently, Enlightened Realism.
Restriction to the two experiments in which either both slits are open or one slit is closed has given rise to the idea of wave-particle complementarity according to which a microscopic object (photon, electron, etc.) would manifest itself as a particle in the which-way experiment but as a wave in the interference experiment. This idea has been felt to be counterintuitive by those not being content with an instrumentalist interpretation of quantum mechanics in which that theory is accepted as just describing phenomena without providing explanations.
I'm relieved to see his degree isn't in physics because if it was, they should take the degree back from him ....
Originally posted by zatara
Light is a very exciting subject.
The other day I came across a thread about the Bose-Einstein condensate. There is this Danish scientist who managed to slow down the speed of light into the speed of a bicycle. She did this by sending a beam of light through this condensate. If you are interested in other stuff about light you should check out that expiriment.
Great thread....S&F!!