In Lord of the Rings , Legolas claims to be capable to count the exact number of horsemen five leagues away — that ’s over 17 Roman mile — even discerning their leader as very tall . But would that ever be possible ?
In this video , Minute Physicsimagines the perfect couplet of eyes to establish if physics could ever really allow Leoglas to see what ’s claim in the book . If he viewed the public in the seeable light spectrum , then diffraction probably made his title bogus — but if he saw in ultraviolet radiation ? Then , then we might be in business organisation . [ Minute Physics ]
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