In fact we do it all the time. There is a considerable lag between the registering of information on the retina and the final production of information in the brain. What we see (always) has already happened and is in the past - there is no present. Another matter while I'm going so far off topic. There is no such thing as 'time'. Time is man-made -- just like Mathematics, and all the wonderfully complex mathematical 'Laws' of Physics. Quarks and many other wonders exist, indeed they do, but not as we explain or imagine them. No one knows this better than the Cosmologists and Particle Physicists who investigate the nature of such 'things'.
Now I'll duck. Don _______________ Dr E D F Williams http://personal.inet.fi/cool/don.williams Author's Web Site and Photo Gallery Updated: March 30, 2002 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Studdert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 9:21 AM Subject: Re: Zooms vs. primes: the final word and ultimate wisdom > > Hi, > > > > Thursday, July 17, 2003, 12:36:18 AM, you wrote: > > > > > On 16 Jul 2003 at 10:30, Michael Bergstrom wrote: > > > > >> I held out a fleeting hope that its ability to focus slightly beyond > > >> infinity would allow me to capture images of objects as they once appeared in the past, > > > > > How cool would that be :-) > > > > it's what we already do. > > Well yes we do when viewing distant space objects but we don't have to focus > past infinity to do that :-) > > Rob Studdert > HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA > Tel +61-2-9554-4110 > UTC(GMT) +10 Hours > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ > Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 >
