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From: Archimedes Plutonium on 19 May 2010 01:14

Today I received the prism in the mail and tried it out tonight.
Although I was a bit
tired since working on transplanting alot of trees and bushes today.
So I was not
really into much observing.

What I did find is that the prism is altogether different from the
fiberglass. I would not
even include this experiment if it were a prism alone. It was
difficult to even notice
a redshift of oncoming white headlights. I still do not know if there
was a redshift
in the prism of oncoming white headlights. With the fiberglass, you
cannot miss
seeing a huge redshift. So I wonder if it is a mix of refraction and
scattering in
the fiberglass?
I also wonder if the tint in the fiberglass plays a huge role.

And I wonder about the serendipity of this whole experiment. The luck
of buying
a fiberglass shed greenhouse that is not durable against the wind and
then
me bringing it into the house to use as window seconds and thence
noticing
at night the redshift of distant car traffic. So what is the chances
of this happening
that I get the proper and correct factors of fiberglass refraction
with scattering
and the proper tint that is the equivalent of a Cosmic redshift?

What I noticed tonight was the white headlights a bit blurred by the
prism
but no redshift of notice. It is rather difficult
to see the image in the prism of the white headlight, so alot of
adjusting of
my view through the prism.

I will repeat the experiment tomorrow, weather permitting.

My evaluation is that this is solely a fiberglass experiment and the
prism
does not add much.


Archimedes Plutonium
http://www.iw.net/~a_plutonium/
whole entire Universe is just one big atom
where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies
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