Debunking Creationism with a broken CD *Try it yourself competition*

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Chad's channel: (do not be too harsh on him as he is researching his position) http://www.youtube.com/chvdth3mad

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How I built my spectroscope.

I used: a cardboard tube (mine had end caps), a CD, some opaque materials (thick paper) and two razor blades (optional).

Make yourself a some end caps for your tube if you do not have any. These can be made using your opaque materials (thick paper, card etc.) these can be simple circles a bit larger than your tube with tabs on the outside to stick them on with.

On the end you will eventually point at the light source make yourself a very fine slit. The finer the slit the more detail you will see but the brighter the light source will have to be. The edges should be clean to give a nice clean spectra.

You can use razor blades to give a clean edge by making the slit slightly larger and taping the blades on either side, with the sharp edges close together over the hole.

Once attached to the tube this end is done.

Now take your CD and break it in half and half again. Pick a piece you want to use and place some tape on the side with the print on it. (The top when loading into a tray). Pull the tape off and with in a few goes hopefully the shinny foil of the disc will come off. The left over plastic is our diffraction grating.
(You can test it by looking thru it at a mild source of light, you should see a rainbow like pattern)
Cut yourself a hole in your remaining end cap large enough to look thru but not larger than your grating. Tape or glue your grating to what will be the inside of your cap.
At this point hold the cap and the grating on your tube and look thru it at an electric light. Have your slit vertical and rotate your diffraction grating end cap around until a spectra shoes to the side of it. Once there stick your end cap on in this position.
Your spectroscope is done. Now all that is left is to decorate it and go examine some lights :)
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Links for other spectroscope designs:

http://mrhood.net/physics/tag/spectroscope/ (a very similar one to mine but with pictures of the build)

http://www.amnh.org/education/resources/rfl/pdf/du_u03_spectroscope.pdf (A NASA backed project spectroscope with a print out template)

http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/Curric_7-12/Activity_1.pdf (a spectroscope build that you could use to measure with)

http://jethomson.wordpress.com/spectrometer-articles/how-to-build-a-spectrosc... (a camera based spectroscope)

http://tinyurl.com/spectra1 (A great article from popular science in 1934 on spectroscopes)

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[craigdb84]

Yet another person trying to debunk creationism when he doesn't even understand the subject he is trying to debunk.

[Answersinbooks]

@craigdb84 "Yet another person trying to debunk creationism when he doesn't even understand the subject he is trying to debunk." - Go a head, don't be shy. Let us all hear how you know more about spectroscopy than all the experts in the field and have completely disproved what was said in this video.

Points will be awarded for sighting sources and giving evidence. Points will also be deducted if you use logical fallacies, hearsay or parrot Kent Hovind blindly and with out acknowledgment.

[Forth3KINGdom]

Can you explain how electrons can jump from one orbit to another with NO inbetweens? it jumps in and out of existence, a miracle. Explain that one

[Answersinbooks]

@Forth3KINGdom You made a whole new account just to ask that? Think of this. You cut a cross section of a wave on the sea. There is a peak and a trough that you can easily point to. However there are points where the wave is at the same level as the flat sea. How are those points distinguishable as part of a wave? What value would they be given if the wave form was plotted on a graph?

Answering these questions will get you started on answering that question for yourself.

[anglicantian]

It's funny how these internet loons think they can somehow disprove a well established scientific theory by making a hack job of understanding them, and then not do any research. All those solar astronomers are probably involved in the evil anti-creationism conspiracy... All they do is sit around drinking coffee, wondering how to shut people like Chad up...

[1zacster]

@ChCdth3mAd he was debunking young earth theory, creationism has no evidence whatsoever so he didn't have to provide any, because lack of evidence is his evidence

[commanderkruge]

@Mogley52 See, and that's the nice thing about science - it shows how things did *not* happen by chance but exactly because they follow some pretty basic rules. Those rules actually allow for stuff to become structured and organised in many ways.

[ruzzdugg]

yes you could use the spectroscope to see what the outer layer of the sun is made of, but do you know what's inside the sun? is there a spectroscope that can measure the inter accurately to see what' it's made of?

[Mogley52]

Your premises and logic are specious. Mathematical probability doesn't lie and it totally refutes information, in any form, arising by chance, including what you have expressed on this site. I'm sure what you said on this site wasn't by randomly hitting the computer keys because you were trying to catch mug of coffee from falling. Read my articles under my name: Babu G. Ranganathan

[TheHomelessCripple]

@Ishnuvalok that's what I was thinking as well. I doubt Chad realizes the physics behind Neutrionos to begin with. Such as, they only interact with the Weak nuclear force, which only has an influence of 10e-18 meters, which is drastically smaller that the diameter of a single proton. That's why the experiment he mentioned involved suppercool germanium, so the scientists could get the best possible number of collisions, which still resulted in very few hits.

[sinistar99]

The electron needs to be careful not to twist its ankle when it jumps from that higher orbit! haha great vids! 

[chameliondude]

Wow, cheers man, you just confirmed that I wrote the right thing in my physics A2 on balmer absorbtion lines.

[bogdan1231]

you just wanted an excuse to jump rocks at the beach :P