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...and once again joe asks himself (and yarts himself), "what's the difference between a duck"?
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Bart Simpson answered that one years agoPlease, Max, let this foreigner in on it 
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>let this foreigner in on it
I believe it was 'kind of a whooshing sound', wasn't it?
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Please, Max, let this foreigner in on itIn one episode of The Simpsons Bart's sister Lisa was trying to help him train for a important game of miniature golf by introducing him to Zen. She asked him, "what is the sound of one hand clapping?", and he responded by clapping one hand, which is, of course, incredibly easy to do, though I had never thought to try it, before seeing it done.
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Clapping with one hand.
Thanks Max. for further confusing this furriner.Just to pay you back, I will describe a VD diagnostic breakthrough in the forties. The gonophone,a special catheter with a microphone in it, so that every time a gonococcus went by the tip, the doctor with the earphones could hear it go "Clap,Clap!"
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You have to think about: how do you define colour? It is the part of the spectrum which is reflected back to your eyes rather than absorbed by the object that it strikes. Glass has a very small reflection coefficient, so not much light is reflected back to you to begin with. As for the spectral variation of the reflection coefficient, I am not sure about it, but if I had time I could probably look it up. But I think your eyes won't see much difference if it reflects, say, 2% of the intensity of red light and 1% of the intensity of blue light. Both numbers are so small that you don't notice a particular colour being preferentially reflected. So the colour would be - whatever preferred word for no colour at all - I would call it "clear".
Now you say, but the prism splits light into a rainbow. Yes, but that is the light that goes through it, not the light that is reflected. If you're sticking to the reflection definition of colour, then the prism is clearly clear. 'laugh] You can't see the rainbow part unless you project it onto something, which isn't the same thing as the colour of the prism itself.
Polarization is a lot harder to explain in words (physics is all about drawing things, which I am terrible at), so I will leave that unless someone PMs me to ask.
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"If a man was speaking in the middle of a forest, and there was no woman around to hear him... would he still be wrong??"
Yep. It's not a matter of guilt it's simply a question of method and opportunity.
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