Re: [Phys-l] refraction question

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

This suggests a Dr. Moreau or NAZI experiment.

Bob beat me to:

And how does one put ones retina in the glass? -- remember the retinal cells are bathed in the vitreous.


On 2010, Apr 23, , at 08:13, Ron Curtin wrote:

> A good question that I have had students ask me involves the color the light laser light would look if, instead of observing it from outside of the glass as we nearly always do, you were inside the glass.  I suspect that, even though the wavelength and speed were different, you would see the same color.


bc   who's index is close to that of water's.

p.s. And then the "photon" enters the cell and does something to the rhodopsin, etc.?  Any one know that's index?    Later:  I read JC has already dealt with this.



On 2010, Apr 23, , at 13:27, LaMontagne, Bob wrote:

> When light enters the eye the wavelength becomes dependent on the index of refraction of the fluid in the eye - regardless of what media the light went through previously. The fact that you see the light as red when it passes through water does not, per se, prove that perceived color depends on frequency instead of wavelength.