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# Surely that would only allow you to see radiation which strikes the glasses though.
Which to be honest would be rubbish and about the same as a Geiger counter.
(, Mon 19 May 2008, 20:24, archived)
# In the same way as your eyes only see light which strikes them.
It might be pretty.
(, Mon 19 May 2008, 20:25, archived)
# It wouldn't be the same
unless the crystals release a photon in the same direction the original radiation was traveling in. If not, they'd just be opaque glasses that light up.

If you could put a layer of these crystals over the retina, that might work.
(, Mon 19 May 2008, 20:29, archived)
# That is true.
If the crystal were thin enough, it should give you a little blob of light around the interaction, if there's not too much reflection.
But if they were that thin, the amount of radiation you'd see would be a fraction of the amount destroying your eyes.
(, Mon 19 May 2008, 20:31, archived)
# You could build a pair of complete artificial eyes to wear in front of your real eyes
connected to some kind of screen on the back of the glasses.
(, Mon 19 May 2008, 20:44, archived)
# In this case, you may as well strap it to a little remote controlled thingumy,
so you don't have to go near the radioactivity.
(, Mon 19 May 2008, 20:51, archived)
# What!
And miss all the fun!
(, Mon 19 May 2008, 20:54, archived)
# Ok, ok, you can go in.
And you'll have a handy device showing you how badly you're being irradiated.
(, Mon 19 May 2008, 20:57, archived)
# Not only that, I could see exactly what was most radioactive
and run away from it or cosy up to it, according to taste. Might be handy in some kind of post-apocalyptic nightmare world.
(, Mon 19 May 2008, 21:01, archived)
# Not only that,
but I predict they'll make quite an impressive fashion statement.
(, Mon 19 May 2008, 21:02, archived)
# What he said.
(, Mon 19 May 2008, 20:33, archived)
# Another idea is to put a collimator behind the crystal,
to absorb the photons which don't head straight to the eye after being produced in the crystal.
This kind of thing en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Collimator.jpg
(, Mon 19 May 2008, 20:36, archived)
# needs more bacon
(, Mon 19 May 2008, 20:44, archived)
# That's all very well,
but the crystal would react to radiation coming from all angles, so it'd light up indiscriminately all over all the time.
...Needs a lens in front, possibly.
(, Mon 19 May 2008, 20:46, archived)
# This is also true.
You'd need another collimator on the front, then.
I appreciate these glasses are becoming rather chunky and inefficient.
(, Mon 19 May 2008, 20:49, archived)
# chunkiness is not an issue
(, Mon 19 May 2008, 21:05, archived)
# no i mean i want to see radiation
the waves n all
(, Mon 19 May 2008, 20:27, archived)
# Ah.
I suggest asking happytoast to make a nice animation of it.
(, Mon 19 May 2008, 20:29, archived)
# scieneces suck :(
(, Mon 19 May 2008, 20:41, archived)