Re: Physics Myth (?) #1

[brian whatcott <inet@INTELLISYS.NET>]

At 16:36 4/28/00 -0700, you wrote:
> My youngest son had a bad case of wandering eye, surgery could only
> correct part of the problem. The doctor prescribed glasses with a prism
> in one lens that would cause a normal sighted person to see a split
> image, one higher than the other. .... When I took the glasses off I
> saw, without the glasses, a split image that took about 30 minutes to
> resolve. It took that long for my "corrected" eye to move to its' normal
> place.
>
>
> Ray Rogoway

Which reminds me why CRTs can be headache-inducing, in comparison
with flat screens. The continual fine focussing that goes on is to
some extent defeated by the fuzzy edges and flickering image of the
 one and helped by the hard unflickering edges of the other.


brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>
Altus OK