wirelessguru1 Wrote:
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> > No not like glass at all. Glass has a
> refractive index - light is directly
> > afected by it. Else we could not have
> telescopes and microscopes.
>
> I said "glass" only in the sense of using
> something familiar to you with respect to how we
> already manipulate light with glass lenses,
> etc...and I am fully aware that light is directly
> affected by its refractive index in terms of both
> attenuation, phase, etc. Like, for example, we
> can polarize light waves that way...
>
> I was not necessarily suggesting that dark matter
> is like glass! LOL
>

What where you suggesting then ?


>
> But, like glass lenses can make something look
> bigger and closer when in focus (an illusion) with
> both telescopes and microscopes, then why couldn't
> nature play the same tricks with our own
> instruments!?
>
>
> After all, time-space is an illusion...
>

Ahh you make me feel tired WG. You sap the energy out of anyone who tries to explain things to you.

Can't you just once get real and say "I didn't know that", or "Do you know anywhere I can find out more about that". Its a well know psychological issue that makes you always want to say something that makes it look like you knew it all already when clearly you didn't. Let go of your need to always be right. No one knows everything and no one expects you to know everything. If you have different ideas about things thats fine. But please make some effort to be more real about it all. If someone comes up with a reason why you are wrong try harder to understand why they think you are wrong than to come out with a reply that makes you feel safe. This is good advice I'm giving here

Simon