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Port — the ladder

One essay so far against this idea. A ladder is the distinct arguments that stand against one idea, and this one has room to grow.
  1. 00.50011.50205101520the dome's centre, off the entrance pupil (mm)worst departure from the pinhole it would be in air (degrees)centred: exactly zero6 mm → 0.635°a 100 mm dome in acrylic, n = 1.4910.106° per mm of centring error

    The port that is not there

    A flat window into water costs a lens a third of its field. A sphere centred on the entrance pupil costs nothing at all — not nearly nothing, exactly nothing — and six millimetres off centre costs 0.635°.

    rung 3 · refraction

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