GOD GLASSES
Copyright: George Hammond 2009
The central goal of all of Religion is a quest for what
is called (e.g. by the Catholic Church) the BEATIFIC VISION.
It is not my intent to give a crash course in Religion
for scientific heathens, but I will mention that the
scientific basis of God and the phenomenon of Beatific
Vision has been discovered, proven and published in the peer
reviewed academic literature by me (Hammond 2003):
http://webspace.webring.com/people/eg/george_hammond/Hammond5s1.html
and is now known to be caused by the Secular Trend in human
growth discovered 100 years ago.
Briefly, Secular Trend data shows that no human being is
fully grown, that is, our phenotypic size has never reached
our genotypic size and is only slowly doing so over a long
historical time. Roughly speaking, the average human being
today is about 20% more or less short of full theoretical
growth.
Since our brains are therefore 20% short of full growth,
it is not surprising that we can only see 80% of full normal
reality… hence the term BEATIFIC VISION is used to
describe the reality that we WOULD see is we had the other
20% of our brain which is missing!
WHILE IT MAY BE HARD FOR YOU TO BELIEVE, ESPECIALLY IF
YOU ARE AN ATHEIST, THIS PHENOMENON IS THE SCIENTIFIC
EXPLANATION OF “GOD”, “RELIGION”, “HEAVEN”, “MIRACLES” AND
“ANGELS” AND EXPLAINS THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF RELIGION
INCLUDING CHRISTIANITY.
Ok, so the Secular Trend growth deficit of the human
brain causes the world (aka reality) to appear BIGGER AND
FASTER than it actually is-- and it is that fact which
brings us around to the subject of EYEGLASSES.
Most people if they are over 40 develop presbyopia
(farsightedness) and have to start wearing eyeglasses. As
you may have noticed these glasses make things look BIGGER.
On the other hand, 15% of people who wear eyeglasses are
actually NEARSIGHTED (myopic), and they have to wear glasses
with negative lenses that actually make the world look
SMALLER.
AHA…!
This tells us immediately that myopic (nearsighted)
people must be a very special breed! For one thing, in the
eternal quest towards finding the Beatific Vision which is
to downsize the world to it’s true size and speed, MYOPICS
already have a leg up on the problem… their glasses just
happen to make the world appear SMALLER!
By the same token, we see that the rest of us who are far
sighted just happen to be the victims of an enormous
historical optical accident… our glasses make the world
appear BIGGER which is moving in exactly the WRONG
DIRECTION vis a vis trying to move us towards the Beatific
Vision.
Anyway, this discovery that myopics wear negative glasses
tells us that myopics are actually one step ahead of the
rest of us insofar as actually being able to see the
Beatific Vision, i.e. actually being able to “see Heaven”.
In that regard, we might actually consider myopics to be
living examples of what religion calls “angels”. As the
scientific proof of God cited above shows, “angels” are
actually human personality types who have above average
growth (small growth deficits) and are generally elected to
leadership roles, many times as public servants. Teddy
Roosevelt was a famous myopic for instance.
This tells us that myopics are very special people
personality wise. And it turns out that I am not the first
one to discover this. Turns out the psychologists have long
been interested in the connection between myopia and
personality and intelligence. Myopics generally score high
on IQ tests and generally they have likeable and even
popular personalities.
According to my theory of course this is caused by the
fact that they develop psychological dominance because they
live in a Gulliver’s Travels type of world where they are
actually surrounded by people who look like midgets…
remember their glasses make everybody look SMALLER than they
actually are.
A Google search of “myopia and personality” immediately
turns up numerous studies, but the one that I think hits the
nail on the head most accurately is one by Swanson:
http://bas.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/45/2/149
and here he finds that myopics make powerful CEO’s who favor
high salaries for top executives and tend to be very
commanding, dominant and authoritative. All of this of
course points towards possession of a psychologically
dominant personality.
Ok… so we have now discovered the ADVANTAGE of wearing
NEGATIVE GLASSES… glasses that make the world look
SAMALLER rather than bigger. And that brings me around to
my own particular case.
I am farsighted, and at age 67 I currently find myself
wearing +2.75 reading glasses nearly all day long. These
glasses have a magnification of about +10%… meaning they
make the world look 10% larger than it actually is. This is
a long way from the Beatific Vision needless to say, and
it’s beginning to bother me. A 6’ man strolling towards me
appears to be 6’ 7" tall… which can be quite intimidating
in some circumstances. Generally speaking 10% magnification
of the world can engender an inferiority complex after
awhile.
So, being a physicist, I got to thinking about a possible
way to make some glasses which would correct my blurry
vision without magnifying the world, and in fact that would
actually MINIFY the world same as myopic glasses. Is this
possible? It turns out it is possible, although not very
convenient or easy.
In the first place, eyeglasses are used to correct
blurred vision. It turns out that the magnification caused
by eyeglasses is entirely ACCIDENTAL. The magnification is
caused by the 15 mm space between your eyes and your
glasses. This is demonstrated by putting on contact lenses
which rest right on the eye and noticing that they
immediately clear up your blurred vision but they produce
VIRTUALLY NO MAGNIFICATION!
This got me to thinking. Suppose a person with 20-20
vision put on positive contact lenses and negative
eyeglasses at the same time. The glasses would cancel out
the contacts so he would maintain clear vision, but since
the glasses magnify while contacts don’t… he would end up
with NEGATIVE MAGNIFICATION the same as myopics have.
In fact, I could do the same thing even though I need
positive correction to begin with. What I could do is go
get fitted for contact lenses to give me clear vision…
then go online and order some of the same contacts but add a
couple of diopters additional strength to the prescription
on the order form, and then buy some negative glasses from
another online source… and voila… I could enjoy the
“Beatific Vision” that the myopic angels already enjoy…
only having suffered with a magnified world for many years,
I could REALLY APPRECIATE IT!
Let me take a second to explain the Physics of all this.
It turns out negative eyeglasses plus positive contact
lenses constitute a “reversed Galilean Telescope”. The
magnification of a Galilean telescope is given by F/f where
F and f are the focal length of the positive objective lens
and f is the focal length of the negative eyepiece.
Substituting d=F-f where d is the distance between the
contacts and the eyeglasses we can write the magnification
F/f as:
m=magnification = F/f = 1/(1-d/F) d in mm
this can be put in terms of diopters D, using D=1000/f as:
magnification = 1/(1-Dd) d in meters
for our setup d=15 mm, and if we use a 6D contact lens, the
magnification will be:
m = 1/(1-.015x6) = 1.1 which is a (minus) 10% magnification
which is about exactly what we looking for.
With this miraculous setup… and bear in mind that I
will probably be the FIRST HUMAN BEING IN HISTORY with
farsighted eyes to actually see what the world looks like to
a myopic, I fully expect to take one small step for me and
one large step for mankind into the BEATIFIC VISION ITSLEF.
Now myopics are already seeing this, but bear in mind
that myopics are born that way and therefore, unlike a
hyperopic like me, they don’t know the difference… that’s
what an angel is, somebody who is born that way and doesn’t
know the difference. As for me, if my scientific theory is
correct, I’m about to be “BORN AGAIN”!
I’ll be sure to keep you posted on developments as I go
forward with this plan. And by the way, since I am
volunteering to be the human guinea pig for this experiment
(I hesitate to say Hamster) and this is a pro bono non
profit, humane effort… if there is anyone out there who is
interested in the outcome and could assist me in defraying
the expenses of the contacts and eyeglass equipment…
please contact me at:
For your effort you will receive a written report of the
outcome of the experiment and credit in any publications I
make on the subject. And God bless you too.
Regards, George Hammond M.S. Physics
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