Can blind people study physics? Yes they can (to a degree)!

On Mar 30, Hawkman wrote:
As you know, blind people are people who cannot see. But
blind people can still study physics with help and guidance
but they may not become astronomers.

What if you're an astronomer, and you get assigned
the day shift?

--
Rich

On 3/30/10 10:24 PM, RichD wrote:
On Mar 30, wrote:
As you know, blind people are people who cannot see. But
blind people can still study physics with help and guidance
but they may not become astronomers.

What if you're an astronomer, and you get assigned
the day shift?

--
Rich

Since when does one need to be up at night, except for some
ground based optical astronomy.

All the space telescope, interplanetary probes, rovers, radio,
solar, neutrino telescopes and even gravity wave detection are
not tied to specific darkness of the night sky.

"RichD" wrote in message
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On Mar 30, Hawkman wrote:
As you know, blind people are people who cannot see. But
blind people can still study physics with help and guidance
but they may not become astronomers.

What if you're an astronomer, and you get assigned
the day shift?

--
Rich

You work in the infra-red or radio frequencies, Derangey.

On Mar 30, Sam Wormley wrote:
blind people can still study physics with help and guidance
but they may not become astronomers.

What if you're an astronomer, and you get assigned
the day shift?

* *Since when does one need to be up at night, except for some
* *ground based optical astronomy.

* *All the space telescope, interplanetary probes, rovers, radio,
* *solar, neutrino telescopes ... are
* *not tied to specific darkness of the night sky.

You can see neutrinos on a bright sunny day?

--
Rich

On 3/31/10 10:34 PM, RichD wrote:
On Mar 30, Sam wrote:
blind people can still study physics with help and guidance
but they may not become astronomers.

What if you're an astronomer, and you get assigned
the day shift?

Since when does one need to be up at night, except for some
ground based optical astronomy.

All the space telescope, interplanetary probes, rovers, radio,
solar, neutrino telescopes ... are
not tied to specific darkness of the night sky.

You can see neutrinos on a bright sunny day?

--
Rich


You betcha.

On 3/31/2010 11:34 PM, RichD wrote:
On Mar 30, Sam wrote:
blind people can still study physics with help and guidance
but they may not become astronomers.

What if you're an astronomer, and you get assigned
the day shift?

Since when does one need to be up at night, except for some
ground based optical astronomy.

All the space telescope, interplanetary probes, rovers, radio,
solar, neutrino telescopes ... are
not tied to specific darkness of the night sky.

You can see neutrinos on a bright sunny day?

Neutrino detectors are generally deep underground, so yes.

RichD wrote:
On Mar 30, Sam Wormley wrote:
blind people can still study physics with help and guidance
but they may not become astronomers.
What if you're an astronomer, and you get assigned
the day shift?

Since when does one need to be up at night, except for some
ground based optical astronomy.

Even some of the ground based optical astronomy is so heavily
computerised that you don't need to physically do anything. Unlike the
bad old days where some poor devil had to sit at the focus guiding and
changing photographic plates. And when working in the pitch dark
processing photographic plates being blind is not such a disadvantage.
Sighted people have to do everything by touch in a darkroom.

All the space telescope, interplanetary probes, rovers, radio,
solar, neutrino telescopes ... are
not tied to specific darkness of the night sky.

You can see neutrinos on a bright sunny day?

In as much as you can ever see them - yes. Typically the detectors are a
kilometre or so underground in potash mines or similar locations. Cosmic
rays and terrestrial radiation sources are problem noise sources. eg

http://hepwww.rl.ac.uk/ukdmc/pub/pap...NPBPS110RL.pdf

Gadolinium doped scintillators or vast quantities of dry cleaning fluid
have been used to catch the odd neutrino as it passes through.

Regards,
Martin Brown