Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/08/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Frankly I'm deeply disappointed in Kyle's rather prosaic method of handling kitten photography and I'm suspicious of its accuracy. Did you see a "kitten wrangler" in his setup? No! Would Kylle have omitted this "wrangler", perhaps suspected from the ceiling and wearing protective back leather or a skin-tight rubber suit? Of course he wouldn't! We all know that kittens are quantum wavefronts personified. Schoedinger used a cat in his famous thought experiment for a reason! He didn't use a kitten because there is no known containment once they shift into wavefront mode. What Kyle carefully concealed to all but the most intense scrutiny was his GM-tube detector and the potential barriers he erected on either side of the mysterious white sheet. (Possibly itself producing the barrier in conjunction with the strobe - the geometry of the setup would certain create a fine field of intense and uniform light which might interact with the kitten-wave-front as it filled the room. The GM tube would select an appropriate moment from the background radiation, some dying star in a galaxy far distant where another Kyle, another wave-front kitten had once lived having sent a cosmic ray hurtling through the ether until its particle cascade could trigger the pulse, freeze the kitten into momentary solidity in the light's potential barrier, and yet another fine image is made. OR you could believe in "cat wranglers". I know where my bet would be laid! Adam