ZVar wrote:Again I'm reading just in time. From Echoes of Honor..
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So blue lightning, or blue sun. That's translation though and not impeller wedges. For wedges it's red shifted...
Thanks for the quote! Yes, sails are circular and visible, bleeding energy after use. That should be an awesome sight on TV.
For wedges, the excerpt you posted says that: a) light gets redshifted and b) it doesn't blur the image, just shift position, like a prism. Now, it was talking about shifts with relation to a punctual source, like a far away star; it's still possible that it shifts differently in different parts of the wedge, producing an aberration image.
Going back to redshifting: that means visible light goes towards red and red goes into infra-red, but it also means ultraviolet comes into visible. So redshifting does not imply you see red, since it depends where the peak of the light is and if there's enough coming into visible to still stimulate your eyes into seeing white. However, since F-type and bigger stars are less than 3.75% of all stars, you should see most stars red through a wedge.
Finally, there's such a thing as a magnifying grav lens in the observation blister. So the TV series producers could claim that their cameras have them too.
