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Re: A cool fractal



And then there's the one about Helmholtz, who mashed his eyeballs
with his thumbs to see the pretty lights.

Some people need to get out more.

Bill Beaty wrote:

Now if Newton had squinted into his prisms, rather than projecting their
patterns on walls, the wave theory of light could have taken off many
decades earlier than it did.

Bill: I understand that Newton shut himself in a closet, stared at a very
bright light, then turned out the light and stared at the after images.
Talk about your space cadet...A little too much abstinence! Karl

Dr. Karl I. Trappe

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