Hello, my name is Scott and I'm a photoholic.

monkeykoder · Jan 16, 2008

On a sidenote I remember one day sitting in a physics class and I realized it was impossible to photograph an atom... It made me sad.

Battou · Jan 16, 2008

Ok enough talk about those....I missed a page and a half of replies

jstuedle · Jan 16, 2008

monkeykoder said:
I don't exactly associate with the crowd that has or goes to parties. The few times I have gone to parties I hated every single minute of it.

There are a lot of different definitions of a party. You like math, play cards? That is a mathematician's dream. Poker and Blackjack you could be a master of. A card party of 2 couples, a pizza and a bottle of wine. A party does not have to be a college campus drunken free for all. Or a mass of bodies. Something small and friendly.

monkeykoder · Jan 16, 2008

Probably didn't miss much but the main catalyst of the conversation is gone...

jstuedle · Jan 16, 2008

monkeykoder said:
On a sidenote I remember one day sitting in a physics class and I realized it was impossible to photograph an atom... It made me sad.

Little pesky things like the wave length of light get in the way, huh?

monkeykoder · Jan 16, 2008

jstuedle said:
There are a lot of different definitions of a party. You like math, play cards? That is a mathematician's dream. Poker and Blackjack you could be a master of. A card party of 2 couples, a pizza and a bottle of wine. A party does not have to be a college campus drunken free for all. Or a mass of bodies. Something small and friendly.

So I have done a couple of math geek parties that were exactly that (only I think it was corona instead of wine and of course never any women... damned lack of women into math).

jstuedle · Jan 16, 2008

monkeykoder said:
Probably didn't miss much but the main catalyst of the conversation is gone...

You obviously had no issue conversing with Meg, did you? Why is that? How does it make you feel?

monkeykoder · Jan 16, 2008

jstuedle said:
Little pesky things like the wave length of light get in the way, huh?

Something like that the wavelengths that aren't absorbed pass right through the ones that are absorbed are just later re-emitted not giving us any REAL photographic evidence of what it looks like.

jstuedle · Jan 16, 2008

monkeykoder said:
So I have done a couple of math geek parties that were exactly that (only I think it was corona instead of wine and of course never any women... damned lack of women into math).

Why does it have to be math? Why not a simple card party?

monkeykoder · Jan 16, 2008

jstuedle said:
You obviously had no issue conversing with Meg, did you? Why is that? How does it make you feel?

She isn't in the same room as me (I also have a bit less of a problem with women that share one of my few interests) Geeky math women are great I just have yet to meet one that wasn't already married or soon to be married.

monkeykoder · Jan 16, 2008

jstuedle said:
Why does it have to be math? Why not a simple card party?

My list of friends can be counted on the fingers of one hand only one isn't a social phobic math geek.

jstuedle · Jan 16, 2008

monkeykoder said:
Something like that the wavelengths that aren't absorbed pass right through the ones that are absorbed are just later re-emitted not giving us any REAL photographic evidence of what it looks like.

We used to manufacture parts that we measured in "light bands". When One ten-thousandth of an inch was much too big of an increment. Most Microscopes only go to about 960X. 1000X is considered the limit of lights ability to define detail. Past that, it's electron scanning microscopes.

jstuedle · Jan 16, 2008

monkeykoder said:
My list of friends can be counted on the fingers of one hand only one isn't a social phobic math geek.

Got to open your horizons a little. Is there a camera club at school? Every think about studio shooting? After a while move up to models?

monkeykoder · Jan 16, 2008

jstuedle said:
We used to manufacture parts that we measured in "light bands". When One ten-thousandth of an inch was much too big of an increment. Most Microscopes only go to about 960X. 1000X is considered the limit of lights ability to define detail. Past that, it's electron scanning microscopes.

Well take away the limitations of out optics (including the eyes not able to see the extremely short wavelength light) we STILL couldn't see (much less photograph) an atom there is nothing there that is all that much bigger than a photon.