Senior Staff Scientist Thomas Humphrey invents a simple experiment to see if the Giant Mirror is spherical or parabolic. By placing a ping pong ball at the center of curvature, he's able to prove the mirror is out of pure sphericity by about one-quarter of one degree.
http://www.exploratorium.edu/reflections/
I think we found the guy who tested the Hubble Space Telescope.
posha666 2 years ago
I consider myself a fairly smart guy, this made my brain hurt trying to keep up. Pretty cool.
AeroJimE27 2 years ago