Seeking answers to multiple challenging questions

Factual Questions
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Here’s a few of the questions that’ve been resisting solution lately. Any help on these greatly appreciated.

  • How does colour really work?
  • Does eye colour have a practical effect on visual colour perception weighting?
  • Given that we know eyes have sensitivity to high/medium/low frequency bands of light, can we dismiss opponent colour theory out of hand?
  • Does an RGB/CMY model based on balanced trineric axes for colour perception make mechanical sense?
  • What makes some people able to see better than others, and are glasses/surgery the only solution to substandard eyeball focussing?
  • Why does the spectrum appear as it does in the numerous forms it’s possible to get it to appear in? Does anyone understand the mechanics of this?
  • What happens when you shine light through an anti-prism? What about when you shine blacklight through one?
  • Can you make rainbow holograms using a CD burner?
  • What does the numeric notation on the bottom of post 1950’s Chinese ‘Mudmen’ figurines actually mean?
  • Given present knowledge on the topic, can human b. bergdorferi infection with multiple co-morbid infections be cured in humans using antibiotics prior to the introduction of tinidazole or a metronidazole derivative?
  • What conditions can cause a large Class 3B girder-mounted helium-neon glass-tube research LASE to become de-gassed?
  • Would it be possible to make shoes containing metal detection elements light enough to be functional?
  • Why does approaching the speed of light cause red-blue shifting, rather than red-violet?
  • How would I go about identifying pre-1980 Oxberry shuttle/movement elements where the serial numbers appear on no superficially visible internet listings?
  • What Chinese tea varieties have similar or arguably superior taste to earl grey’s artificially accentuated citrus tones?
  • Does musical harmonic bear any relation to colour harmonic?
  • How do the mechanics of harmonics function?
  • Are there any practical uses of the optics from redundant manually focussed film camera lenses?

This list isn’t all inclusive, but it’ll do for this time of night.

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Good grief.

Three suggestions:

  1. wikipedia (specifically check out the sources linked at the bottoms of the articles.)

  2. google scholar

  3. ocw.mit.edu <---- open-source free courses on lots of different topics, ‘taught’ by MIT profs. Very informative, and a solid listing of topics.

As a potentially-related side note, did you know that researchers have proven that you retain information better if you do the hard work of seeking and synthesizing it yourself, rather than having it handed to you?

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Really, I think you need more than one thread for that lot.

I’ll do the blue shifting thing though. It’s just terminology. Blue shift coukd just as easily have been called ultraviolet shift

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Hot damn! Imagine being able to see that with your own eyes. It’d be spectacular.

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I spend a lot of time on the first two :stuck_out_tongue: On colour theory, it would seem human knowledge is actually quite lacking, spectromechanics have only really been deconstructed well by one guy on the net who no-one has ever heard of. Sounded a bit nutty, but his diagrams of anomalies in prismatic mechanics were quite remarkable. Anti-prisms I haven’t found available for optical experiments, just extant as an element of geometry. The Grand antiprism to this day does my head in. Mudmen numbering seems to not have anything online about. Rainbow holograms I think you should be able to do with a CD burner, premise is sound, but I have no idea how i’d test the theory (Don’t think anyone else has tried it). b. bergdorferi is politicised all to hell, and research is polarised to the topic. LASE I just want to know in regards to the one in my garage, so I can figure out what the hell to do with it. Oxberry shuttle I e-mailed the company’s tech support but haven’t heard back. I have the original mimeographs of the wiring of the device they were attached to, but no real conception of it’s function.

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Knifeswitch, welcome to the Straight Dope.

As others have noted, there are far too many unrelated questions in your post to make a viable General Questions thread. Things would get impossibly confusing as people tried to answer individual questions or some combination of them.

I would suggest opening one or a very few threads asking some related questions, for example about color theory. Don’t open a lot of threads at the same time. If you have a lot of questions, you’ll get better results if you space them out over a period of time (days or weeks).

I’ve closed this thread in order to give you an opportunity to try again.

Colibri
General Questions Moderator