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The Skeptics Guide #875 - Apr 16 2022

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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X Ray Chrom Chromatic Lens

An optical achromatic lens can focus to 20 nantimeters an order, you have an order of magnitude greater optical resolution. You could zoome in on stuff and see amazing details with it. It would be a great to but we don't have an ahe there's no achromatic x ray lens. They don't exist. So they what they did was they had to look at not similar materials, but different optical principles, and put them together so refractive defractive. And the other critical component that only recently became available was they did using threed printing with a special palamerThey were able to build the specific lens component that they needed to refract the x rays

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