Re: Missing replies Draper requested.

From: Timo Nieminen (timo_at_physics.uq.edu.au)
Date: 01/27/05 

Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 09:36:52 +1000

On Fri, 27 Jan 2005, Randy Poe wrote:

> Androcles wrote:
> > "PD" <pdraper@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > > Wait, you're telling me I don't KNOW the frequency of visible light
> > > because I can't measure it?
> >
> > Yes. I am. You cannot measure it.
> > Androcles.
>
> http://www.stormingmedia.us/85/8521/A852123.html
> http://www.boulder.nist.gov/div815/81503_pubs/NPOFDocs/Corwin-OL-04.pdf
> http://www.npl.co.uk/optical_frequency_standards/introduction/frequency_metrology/fs_combs.html

Aw, you cut the funny part; you know, the part where he was claiming that
because the frequency of visible light can't be measured, neither can the
refractive index.

(Could that be why refractometers are so expensive :-) ?) 

-- 
Timo
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