Multi-Association Thread

[Recusant]

A great piece for the tympany player. I knew a tympanist. The double bass players have it bad transporting their instruments--it's at least double the effort for a tympanist. He was a genuine character, extremely well read and with a deep knowledge of classical music. Onward . . .

[hermes2015]

[zorkan]

Must've heard it 2001 times.

[hermes2015]

[Icarus]

Prisms with light beams may well be banned in the US by the MAGA crowd of dumbasses. 

I have an optical bench and a variety of lenses, prisms, and light sources that I play with sometimes.

[Dark Lightning]

Fraunhofer lines for ?

[Dark Lightning]

Prisms with light beams may well be banned in the US by the MAGA crowd of dumbasses. 

I have an optical bench and a variety of lenses, prisms, and light sources that I play with sometimes.

"Rainbow gay" or just science in general? These Magats... SMH

[hermes2015]

My response was to the piece by Ligeti called Lux Aeterna, which means Eternal Light. I thought the prism and the lines were an appropriate association.

[Dark Lightning]

OK. Reason I asked is because the Fraunhofer lines represent absorption frequencies in a radiating body. We see them in our sun's spectrum because certain frequencies are absorbed. This isn't our sun's absorption spectrum, though.

[Recusant]

My response was to the piece by Ligeti called Lux Aeterna, which means Eternal Light. I thought the prism and the lines were an appropriate association.

Entirely. Seeing as the inspiration for the thread is free association--pretty much any association is appropriate! Assuming good will of course.

[Recusant]

Fraunhofer lines for ?

My curiosity sent me in search of an answer. My impression is that the image was created by the European Southern Observatory to accompany science talks for the general public. A image search got me to this version which tells us that the absorption lines are for hydrogen, sodium, and calcium.  I used tineye--the google image search came up empty for whatever reason.

[Dark Lightning]

Fraunhofer lines for ?

My curiosity sent me in search of an answer. My impression is that the image was created by the European Southern Observatory to accompany science talks for the general public. A image search got me to this version which tells us that the absorption lines are for hydrogen, sodium, and calcium.  I used tineye--the google image search came up empty for whatever reason.

Cool! Thanks! Those lines do look to be in about the correct places. As for intent, I hope nothing I said was taken as derogatory or something. That's never my intent. Or, if it was, it would be obvious.

[hermes2015]

Fraunhofer lines for ?

My curiosity sent me in search of an answer. My impression is that the image was created by the European Southern Observatory to accompany science talks for the general public. A image search got me to this version which tells us that the absorption lines are for hydrogen, sodium, and calcium.  I used tineye--the google image search came up empty for whatever reason.

Cool! Thanks! Those lines do look to be in about the correct places. As for intent, I hope nothing I said was taken as derogatory or something. That's never my intent. Or, if it was, it would be obvious.

 

[hermes2015]

A rather cute Lucifer, bringer of light.

[Recusant]