Some Wonders of Optiks

Some Wonders of Optiks





L. Edgar Otto   22 April, 2012




Synchronicity (or perhaps Serendipity) as I posted my grade school question on the difference in the strength of poles of a magnet written waking up in the middle of the night, Science Daily has this inspiring article on the behavior of the complex cycles of the sun,




I know that Californium lases on the surface of the sun and rather than a pencil there can be a laser disc, but can there be a laser sphere? It is most interesting these days that we can cool things with lasers as well, as if absolute zero I think.  That and some control over the decoherence or better yet the stability from Majorana like circuits in that physical space as if superconductivity explained in some quantized  wire of no resistance, that or fractional Hall effects...  A lot is going on in the technology at this nano level.




Oh, I should have made it clearer that the Greeks abhorred an absolute nothingness as well an open infinity.  That light can jump a space between three polarized lens in an experiment one can do with sunglasses does seem more wondrous to me than some requirement of symmetry as an ultimate reason where it is needed than that Aristotle if we have a wider view of teleology in a sense was right that we send out rays from our eyes to see some object- all this before we got a handle on the infinite and now the finite so we think, taking a little longer still.




Then, there is the recent negative index of refraction where the swimmers in a pool seem to float above the water or the coffee is outside the cup. Would have thought this where we hear nature abhors a vacuum and given something inside that it does not seep out from the last drop or thinning air, that all the molecules in motion will not jump out in one direction as astronomically an improbability.  What then is inside a bellows closed and with a stopper opened under water when one pulls to open it beyond the pressure of an atmosphere?  Not to say there could not be something there as evidenced by Casmir but is that all? Rather, why not also nothingness?  How much can vacuum weigh in an empty aether?




Light itself invisible save by reflection if we try to view it from the side.  And if at a distance or some subtle form of light the ATP a thousand times weaker what the kaleidoscope that takes 32 cells (in mammals) to be one thing and not as many twins as we stand before a mirror, disoriented really if there is no seem, or dress between so many seeing the angles that define the multiples of pi or those that only show part of the total scene?  Zero, the dihedron with no volume, is technically a solution and part of the set of Platonic solids too by such formulas.  Let us note also one does not need the hundred thousand or so dimensions to know that by reflection, say bouncing around a laser beam, that on the surface of a sphere nothing is new contained outside of 120th of its area.  Nature even here observes what is five fold of its higher space patterns and shadows.




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