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One of the joys of the Vorts group is that it is not " tone deaf" <
grin>. The importance of the discussion is that light and sound are different
but connected ( same but different) forms of energy.
Physics has been hamstrung way too many years by dogma.
By thinking in the realm of sound and light being the same permits one the
opportunity to investigate new forms of energy without the restraints of dogma.
We are all grown boys and girls and can permit " scientific liscense". After
all, writers of fiction make a living using artistic liscense and call it
imagination. However, science is ridiculed unless the " rules" are rigid and
followed. The experiment demonstrating that light can be " frozen" would make
better sense if it were fiction which only proves that truth is always stranger
than fiction.
The real joy is involvement with undergraduate engineering students
and their flair for thinking outside the box in today's university labs. Hard
for the profs to keep up with them because they spend time on the web "
imagineering".
Most refreshing !! They will likely be the driving force that finally
dislodges the enertia within the university heirarchy that is mindset on
protecting domains.
Richard
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