Sam Faile continues his explorations at the limits of topology. His collection of knotted and multi-order coils grows. Some of the more recent geometries have shown what Sam believes to be an odd optical effect, even in an unpowered passive condition. The effect - claimed by Sam and some random witnesses at his apartment lab to be noticeable to the unaided eye - seems to resemble a continuous blue shift or color distortion. Compared to other geometries wound with identical wire and identical insulating tape, the arrays in question... well, they just do look "blue". Sam got one decent photo recently, that my son posted on his website:
http://www.geocities.com/spfaile/Arrayp.html The one coil to the edge of the pile in the photo has a robins egg blue coloration. Another one Sam feels shows a more violet grey hue. Sam claims that while winding some of the ones that look blue (a task that takes several days) the color effect (to the eye) came and went with sets of windings or knot layers. As though he was dipping in and out of a boundary of phenomenon. Optical illusion? Interaction of topology with human optical response? An actual steady state blue shift? Unknown. I suggested to Sam that he try to get some photos of the coils illuminated with LED or laser light, to see if a bona fide wavelength or color shift by reflection is taking place. I think he is following up on this. I wonder if some of these are vaguely emulating the multi-ordered winding of DNA... NR __________________________________ Discover Yahoo! Have fun online with music videos, cool games, IM and more. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/online.html
