asterismic
Joined 8 years ago
Joined 8 years ago
It seems fundamentally incorrect to show hobbyists and laymen these partial examples, and then cross ones arms and say "that's the way it is" and venture no further.
Polarization experiments and the double slit experiment are continually hauled out onto the stage, again and again, and never enlighten anyone. Taking a relativistic particle, and shooting it through or bouncing it off of a standing wall of atoms (e.g. polarization filters and diffraction gratings), doesn't really introduce an air of mystery into anything, because the wall of atoms operates its own subatomic state, which is selectively ignored. It's basically like setting a murder mystery inside a super max prison.
If so, this qualifies it officially as a dwarf planet.
It starts the viewing on Null Island (0 Lat / 0 Long) when geolocation is refused, so the grassy farm field is cool, but it's be neat to pull the view into cities, to see what the sky would look like, if the light pollution weren't getting in the way.