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If I'm sitting next to a swimming pool and somebody dives in and she's not too pretty,

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so I can think of something else, I think of the waves and things that have formed in the water,

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and when there's lot's of people that have dived in the pool, there's a very great choppiness of all these waves all over the water,

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and to think that it's possible, maybe, that in those waves there a clue as to what's happening in the pool,

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that some sort of insect or something with sufficient cleverness,

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could sit in the corner of the pool and just be disturbed by the waves,

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and by the nature of the irregularities and bumping
of the waves have figured out 


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who jumped in, where and when and what's happening all over the pool.

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And that's what we're doing when we're looking at something:

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the light that comes out is waves

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just like in the swimming pool, except in 3 dimensions instead of the dimensions of the pool and it's going in all directions

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and we have a 8'th of an inch black whole into which these things go,

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which is particularly sensitive to parts of the wave that are coming in a particular direction

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and it's not particularly sensitive when they're coming in at the wrong angle,

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which we say is from the corner of our eye,

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and if we want to get more information from the corner of our eye, we swivel this ball about so that the hole moves from place to place.

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Then, ...

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it's quite wonderful that we figure out so easy;

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that's really because the light waves are easier than the waves in water are a little bit more complicated;

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it would have been harder for the bug than for us, but it's the same idea,

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to figure out what the thing is that we're looking at at a distance,


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and it's really kind-of incredible because when I'm looking at you, someone standing to my left can see somebody who's standing at my right;

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that is, the light could be going right across this way, the waves are going this way, the waves are going this way, the waves are going this way,

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it's just a complete network.

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Now, it's easy to just think of them as arrows passing each other, but that's not the way it is,

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because all of this is something shaking -it's called the electric field,

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but we don't have to bother with what it is- it's just like the water height is going up and down.

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So there's some quantity shaking about here

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and the combination of motions that's so elaborate and complicated that the result is to produce an influence which makes me see you.

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At the same time, completely undisturbed by the fact that there are influences that represent the other guy seeing him on this side.

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So that there's this TREMENDOUS mess

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of waves all over in space which we call... which is the light bouncing around the room and going from one thing to the other,

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because of course most of the room doesn't have 8'th inch black holes. It's not interested in that light,

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but the light is there anyway, and it bounces off this, and it bounces off that,


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and all this is going on, and yet we can sort it out with this instrument.

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But beside all that, you see, those waves that I was talking about in the water,

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maybe they're so big - some of them - and then there's slower swashes which are longer, and shorter.

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Perhaps that animal is making it's study only using waves between this length and that length,

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so it turns out that the eye is only using waves between this length and that length,

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except those two lengths are 100,000'th of an inch - 100,000'th of an inch big,

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and what about the slower swashes?

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The waves that go more slowly, that have a longer distance from crest to trough.

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Those represent heat. We feel those, but our eye doesn't see them focused very well, we don't in fact at all.


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The shorter waves are blue, [...] the longer waves are red. But when it gets longer than that then we call them infrared.

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And all this is in there at the same time. That's the heat.

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And then these waves get longer and longer, and all through the same space, all these things are going on at the same time,

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so that in this space, there's not only my vision of you,

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but information from Moscow Radio that's being broadcasted at present moment, and the seeing of somebody from Peru.

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So this big field, this - this area of irregular motions of this electric field, this vibration, contains this tremendous information,

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and it's ALL REALLY there, that's what gets you.

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If you don't believe it, then you pick a piece of wire and connect it to a box

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and in the wire the electrons would be pushed back and forth by this electric field, swashing just at the right speed for the certain kind of long waves,


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and you turn some knobs on the box to get the swashing just right, and you hear Radio Moscow!

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Then you know that it was there. How else did it get there?

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It was there all the time. It is only when you turn on the radio that you notice it.

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But that all these things are going through the room at the same time which everybody knows,

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but you gotta stop and think about it to really get the pleasure about the complexity 


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- the INCONCEIVABLE nature of nature.