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From: David Grosof To: "jeevacation®gmail.com" <jeevacation®gmail.com> Subject: Fwd: for all of us physics geeks... Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 19:00:49 +0000 Attachments: famous-phys.pdf; bill-of-rights.pdf Hi, I hope you enjoy these samples of physicist? humor... They are forwarded to me by "Vengu," a colleague of mine who has done a lot of work on the waveguide properties of the cone photoreceptors in the retina. [Cones actually orient to the location of the pupil (rather than a simple normal to the retinal surface) and their waveguide properties have been measured and modelled (key work at U. California, Berkeley, natch!). If one wears a contact lens to restrict and decenter the location of the eye's entrance pupil for a few weeks, the behavioral sensitivity of light detection as a function of pupil location changes as if the cones are following the pupil -- like phototactic sunflowers! ] David Vasudevan (Vengu) Lakshmlnarayanan Professor, Optometiy, Physics and Electrical Engineering School of Optomeny University Waterloo David H. Grosof, PhD, MBA President O tiO ia, Inc. (mobile) www.OptiOpia.com EFTA00759995