Recent content by lorax_2nd

You're right, my last post wasn't realistically constructive. Upon re-reading the whole thing, based upon the OP's subsequent posts, it seems clear that he wasn't looking for a brief, simple physics answer, but rather appreciated the thread's various discussions. That's not my cup of tea, so...

I feel a bit woozy, but think I am dumber now after having read this thread, than before I came. Which isn't easy to do, because I'm fairly stupid to begin with. Once upon a time, when someone wanted to ask a physics question, they had to take the effort to physically go find someone...

Monique, your statement quoted above is, well, annoying. It is annoying because it is carelessly vague. You say "this is not true". WHAT is not true? My whole post? The statement that a positive lens creates a real inverted image? I tried very hard to be precise and clear and define my terms and...

I believe you may be getting tangled up in the statement "the brain inverts [the] image". It is really more precisely stated as "the brain interprets the image as inverted". And that is simply because our brain has learned that a positive lens creates an inverted real image of an object. In...