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- From: gr1c+@andrew.cmu.edu (Greg Howard Rhodes)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Magnetic lenses
- Message-ID: <ceRLP2O00WB78ZLEYJ@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 16:33:06 GMT
- Organization: Junior, Physics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Well, as a senior undergraduate physics student, I feel that I should know
- the answer to this, but my optics are not all they should be...(and with the
- GREs coming up really soon, too...)
-
- Anyway, I just got glasses. Being able to see and all is great, but I started
- wondering about alternatives. Now, sure there all of the contact lenses and
- the like, and maybe even lenses designed to actually _fix_ your vision. But
- I was thinking about something a bit more esoteric.
-
- Would it be possible to use a strong stationary E and/or M field to bend
- light in such a way to mimic an eyeglass? And if it would be possible, how
- strong would the field have to be? (and, from a consumer standpoint, how
- small could it be made?
-
- Just wondering, and hoping that the enivronmental thread gets off of
- sci.physics in my lifetime.
-
- Greg Rhodes She's the puzzlepiece behind the couch
- gr1c@andrew.cmu.edu That made the sky complete. -- Lemonheads
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