Talk:Emission theory (vision)
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"50 percent of American college students"? I know we're not the smartest lot, but I think most of us understand that our eyes do not illuminate the objects we look at. This whole article seems a bit fishy, but I don't know enough to edit. Anyone up to it? Xyzzyva 15:56, May 18, 2005 (UTC)
- I couldn't find any reference for this assertion other than sites that mirror Wikipedia. Anyone else have any information on it? Edwardian 22:25, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
- I found something that appears to me to cast some suspicion on those findings[1], but I'm afraid it's beyond my area of expertise to figure it out. Edwardian 06:33, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
I'm going to have a go. There's already another page that refers to Newtonian emission theory, but calls it "emitter theory" - this phrasing is pretty obscure, it only throws up about 300 hits on Google as opposed to about 7,500 for the more usual spelling. And it refers to it as a wave theory based on Maxwell's equations that only became disprovable in the 1960s' (as opposed to the 1910's).
so I think I'll have to rewrite the emitter page (or turn it into a redirect for "emission theory"), and then extend the existing "emission theory" page. Maybe rename the "eye-ray" stuff (which doesn't seem to provide any supporting links or references) to emission theory (vision) or similar, and crosslink.
It might even be worth starting a list page of "emission theories" (Newton and Ritz for starters). ErkDemon 8 July 2005 22:38 (UTC)
