Sunday, February 05, 2006
Isaac Newton started like this, I hear
I'm supposed to be writing a report for a client on broadband access but I was distracted by the fact that the sun has finally come out here. It came pouring through the window, causing me to grab a prism that is part of the thin layer of junk and doo-dads that covers a lot of surfaces around here, and verify that indeed, as Sir Isaac found, you get the colors of the rainbow. Cool. (Why do I have a prism on my desk? I don't know. I got it when I was a sciency little kid and I can't get rid of it. I also have my Cub Scout binoculars, but I may put them up on Ebay and see what happens.)
There is some faint connection to what I'm supposed to be doing - the fact that light has colors lets us do wavelength division multiplexing in fiber optics - but mostly I'm just screwing around avoiding work.
