Thursday, 2 October 2008

Visible Things, Traces

Reading about waves today and the question comes to mind: Given that so much is invisible to the naked eye, is it any wonder that superstition plays such a large role in human history?

(I think the answer is: No!)

Traces

I will begin featuring something I will call Traces here in the Generous Alphabet Journal from now on. Traces are a series of links illustrating my voyage through the internet on a particular browsing session.

I think I thought of Traces in order to better understand my own range of interests, and help give me ideas about projects to pursue in my photograpy. I also think it is interesting to ‘watch’ your brain move, and that Traces might help me see my thought processes (or perhaps it’ll serve as a chronicle of the internet-time-black hole).

Traces usually consist of ‘real’ links on webpages, but may also be links made in my brain subsequently translated to typed words in a search engine search field.

The first trace (embarked upon while looking for a picture of a TV video camera in the public domain for use in work-related visual design, and stumbling on Wikipedia’s Electronics portal and clicking on Radio Waves):

• Electromagnetic Radiation
  • Bolometer
    • NASA on the history of the Bolometer
  • Radio waves
  • Image: Light dispersion conceptual waves
  • Simple Nature, Chapter 11: Electromagnetism
    • Ascending and Descending: M.C. Escher’s commentary on organized thought?
      • Shepard Tone: Auditory illusion of a tone that continually ascends or descends in pitch, yet which ultimately seems to get no higher or lower. To me it sounds, like it is constantly descending.
        • DescenteInfinie Wikipedia page with sound file demonstrating the above.
    • Simple Nature, an online physics textbook
      • Planet Finder
        • Your Sky
          • C-Ship: Old-school website from the co-creator of AutoCAD which ‘…helps you understand Einstein’s theory of Special Relativity intuitively through the medium of computer-synthesised images.’
            • The Dilation of Time
            • The Doppler Shift
            • The Aberration of Light
            • Mr Tompkins in Paperback
• Black Hole “A black hole is a theoretical region of space in which the gravitational field is so powerful that nothing, not even electromagnetic radiation (e.g. visible light), can escape its pull after having fallen past its event horizon.“

I’m stopping at ‘event horizons’! And Now that I think of it, I never found the picture of the camera…

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✒ Simon Griffee

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