I came across an article comparing the human eye with a digital camera. The eye stood out far above the camera as for now. But we do not know how long it will be before the camera catches up with the eye. While the camera has a maximum capacity of 12...
Relationship to other fieldsClassical opticsPhotonics is closely related to optics. However optics preceded the discovery that light is quantized (when the photoelectric effect was explained by Albert Einstein in 1905). The tools of optics are the...
Wednesday May 13, 2009 02:24
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or M.P.King BSc. (Hons) The Generally accepted cosmological TheoriesIt has been theorised by many scientists that the big bang occurred approximately 12,000 million years ago and that the cosmos up until that point did not exist. Now I find it very...
The problems with light (1670 - 1900).The nature of light has been contested throughout much of the history of modern science. Robert Hooke and Christiaan Huygens begun working on a wave theory of light in the 1670s, this was reliant on the idea that...
The Behavior of Light in the Presence of a Gravitational Field By: Dennis Huff IntroductionI will begin this introduction in the manner that I feel is the most appropriate. I must pay homage to Albert Einstein and his views on the universe we live in....
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