Posted by odin on 10/12/05 15:12

> they won't see any "stuff" unless the strobe flash is longer than 1/15
> of a second for adults.... in fact LONGER flashes are needed fo
> kids... more like 1/10 of a second.

OK. Read the wikipedia article on Xenon flash lamp. It contains the
following information: "Discharge durations for common flashlamps are in the
microsecond to a few milliseconds range and can have repetition rates of
hundreds of hertz." Xenon flash lamps are used in all sorts of applications
where a strobe light effect is needed. My dad used them to photograph insect
behavior without cooking them. So You should be able to do your experiment
without all the messy video stuff. Just test to see if kids and adults are
able to see different things in a dark room while changing the flash rate
and the flash duration of a Xenon flash lamp strobe light. I think that you
will find that your theory does not hold up. But even if it did, how would
that prove anything about god?

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