Uploaded September 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This is the final session of my mission to understand how laser beams and lenses act together to circumnavigate the well established rules of lens theory. It was obvious 3 years ago that something illogical was occurring because so many of my tests and experiments were unexplainable by the disciples of lens theory. With only two grey cells, a cheap Chinese laser machine and a plethora of optical ignorance, I was obviously well qualified to solve a problem that everyone else seemed to be ignoring for the past 60 years. I could clearly demonstrate that there was some sort of secret love affair between lenses and laser beams that was allowing them flout the norms of conventional geometric optics.
One of my early engineering mentors taught me that ignorance and intelligence are vital problem solving tools and that reverse engineering a problem can often lead you slowly back to the source. After 3 years of nibbling away at the problem, my perseverance has now been rewarded by a recent lightbulb moment that enabled me to visualize the mechanism by which the unique properties of a laser beam allow it to have its own secret relationship with lenses. This video attempts to share that secret by piecing together a series of demonstrable concepts that build to help YOU visualize the final mechanism. No laws of physics are broken but the optics industry seems to have ignored these weird properties that are beyond the scope of conventional lens design.
This is the final session of my mission to understand how laser beams and lenses act together to circumnavigate the well established rules of lens theory. It was obvious 3 years ago that something illogical was occurring because so many of my tests and experiments were unexplainable by the disciples of lens theory. With only two grey cells, a cheap Chinese laser machine and a plethora of optical ignorance, I was obviously well qualified to solve a problem that everyone else seemed to be ignoring for the past 60 years. I could clearly demonstrate that there was some sort of secret love affair between lenses and laser beams that was allowing them flout the norms of conventional geometric optics.
One of my early engineering mentors taught me that ignorance and intelligence are vital problem solving tools and that reverse engineering a problem can often lead you slowly back to the source. After 3 years of nibbling away at the problem, my perseverance has now been rewarded by a recent lightbulb moment that enabled me to visualize the mechanism by which the unique properties of a laser beam allow it to have its own secret relationship with lenses. This video attempts to share that secret by piecing together a series of demonstrable concepts that build to help YOU visualize the final mechanism. No laws of physics are broken but the optics industry seems to have ignored these weird properties that are beyond the scope of conventional lens design.
