Thursday, October 11, 2007
Modern sight
I read an interview of Richard Feynman the deceased Noble laureate physicist who spoke about light. It was a description of light as waves, and how these waves meet at a tiny slit in our eyes, creating a complete visual representation of what is around us. I have since become a physicist myself, certainly no Feynman, but at least one who has studied and written a bit, and regardless of all of the studies of Quantum Optics, light theory, etc, this simple description comes to mind often. This as I am in the country, watching the leaves change color, the sun disappear behind a mountain, leaving only a Japenese wood print like feature, which can transform the imagination. When the Moon is especially bright, and my little girl and I go outside at 5 AM to see the entire property, and street lit by it. This said I have spent the last 3 years trying to see a bit more. Actually a lot more. Those things which exist not just microscopically small, but even nanoscopically small. Those things that are the building blocks of nature, behaving with different rules of existance, but within that Universe that is seen. This is starting to happen. A new optical microscope, but more importantly a new vision of what vision is. One which can allow our fantasies to be explored the way the stars have been with a telescope, or a sunset with our eyes. My blog, which I admittingly dont write much in, is about things modern. To me modern vision is an extension of ancient vision, with the ability to see more.
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