A new video by Clifford V. Johnson:
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That insane tea-baggin’ Maine GOP convention did something else of interest. Some of the Republican caucuses were held in a local school, including the 8th grade classroom of teacher Paul Clifford.
Remember the case of Clifford Shoemaker, lawyer for the antivaccinationist mercury militia who tried to subpoena Kathleen Seidel under incredibly dubious legal reasoning in order to harass and int
Some new additions to the physics blogroll:
Just reported by Kathleen Seidel:
From the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire, Case No. 1:08-mc-00013-JM:
ENDORSED ORDER granting MOTION to Quash Subpoena.
I thought that this was really well done. I think with only a dozen players, much of what's going on is lost. But I guess with many more players it would be too confusing.
The video is pretty cool and technically correct. My only comment is that they say in the beginning of the video that laser light is more focused than other light.
I have always been told that laser light is directionally coherent,with very low divergence. And that in order to focus a laser, or any light, a lens is needed. Due to the directional coherence it is easier to focus a laser, but that a laser is not "focused" until directed by a lens.
My pet peeve is someone saying they will "focus like laser" on a task. Which is a meaningless statement that shows no understanding of what a laser is.
Can one of the optics scientists correct me if I am wrong about my understanding?