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To: zeestephen

As a physics Ph. D., I’m going to venture to say “No”, as to the general idea, because CCD’s don’t preserve phase information the way mirrors and lenses do.

“Let us now praise optics”


25 posted on 11/09/2017 3:05:59 AM PST by dr_lew (I)
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To: dr_lew
Thanks, Doc.

I have always had great difficulty in understanding light, specifically, the particle-wave duality and the multitude of energy levels.

By “phase information” I presume you mean something like infrared, visible, ultraviolet, etc.

My original thought on this subject was, “Why not cover acres of ground with CCDs instead of spending 20 years casting and grinding mirrors?”

I had always assumed the issue was computer processing power for trillions and trillions of pixels.

31 posted on 11/09/2017 2:10:04 PM PST by zeestephen
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