How Astronomers Missed the Massive Asteroid That Just Whizzed Past Earth

John Larkin wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

We can pass them through certain mediums and actually slow them down now.

A very important property to make use of.

Whoey Louie wrote in news:67d10cba-8433-4f87- snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com:

Admit it, punk. You do weigh more than 280 Lbs.

and not much of that is muscle.

You mean like plastic and glass, AlwaysWrong?

I have a couple of these marvelous inventions resting on my nose. They certainly are useful, AlwaysWrong.

snipped-for-privacy@notreal.com wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Not refraction, Williams.

Try looking up slow light.

The thing that moves slow in you is any grasp of any picture, refraction gear assisting or not, much less the big picture.

No. Much more sophisticated than that altering the group velocity by passing pure monochromatic radiation down a highly dispersive medium B-E condensate configured in such a state that it hampers propagation slowing the speed of a pulse of light down to under 40 mph!

It is a non-trivial slow down factor of 2 million.

In this instance he is right and you are wrong.

It was first done at the turn of the century and the physics tricks it uses to work may yet be relevant to optical quantum computing.

Yes, refraction, AlwaysWrong.

Why? Refraction is a better use.

AlwaysWrong is ALWAYS wrong. Amazing.

I find lenses to be *far* more useful.

Nope. You're wrong. Obviously!

Who cares? Lenses fit the bill quite well.

Stupid, ignorant and determined to stay that way.

Yo clearly can't read, nor think. That's really not surprising, though. At least you're consistent.

Krw isn't actually stupid, or particularly ignorant, and his determination to stick to the opinions he has - some of which are remarkably stupid - see ms represent a specific cognitive deficit.

He lacks the capacity to recognise that any of his opinions might be wrong, and thus any possibility of correcting them. He's so confident that his op inions are correct that he thinks that everybody else shares the same opini on, so anybody who disagrees with him on a matter of fact is deliverately l ying. It's bizarre.

He's been like this for years. One has to wonder how his family copes.