EVE General Discussion

Good video Tippia, thanks.


Hey Einstein, (I mean Bob), for all intent and purposes, 4.3 years to get to Alpha Centauri is really close enough, especially in this instance. The idea is mute, as light speed travel is impossible. But if we could, and that's big if, getting up to light speed most likely wouldn't be instantaneous. We'd have to accelerate, and then at the other end, we'd somehow have to de-accelerate. So it may actually take more than 4.3 years.

And on light bending: The bending of light is used in many scientific journals. IE as light passed thru a prism or lens, the light is refracted or "bent". And in a lens the light comes into focus at that lenses Focal length. The light, being made up of different wavelengths, is split into those wavelengths as it passes thru a lens. Not all the wavelengths come to the same focus. So, some lenses are achromatic, and some have different indexes of refraction to minimize the color separation. Some lenses are doublets or triplets to help with the color correction. (Optics 101)

-Kirst