SOCIAL FILIMENT REFRACTOR

Instructions: Read the filiment text within the bulb while viewing the prismascope. Detect which end of the color spectrum, red or violet, is more diffuse and which is more distinct.

Theory: The written word has the ability to strengthen or weaken the social contract at any particular moment in any particular society. The Social Filiment Refractor (SFR) measures the strength of this social positive/social negative energy by detecting nuanced changes in refracted light while particular texts are being viewed and comprehended. Specifically, when a viewed text is understood to weaken the social contract by a particualar reader, proximate refracted light tends to distort by blurring color boundaries at the red end of the color spectrum. Conversely, text understood to strengthen the social contract distorts the spectrum at the violet end. It is as yet unclear whether this distortion effect within the color spectrum creates a feedback loop to further strengthen or weaken the social contract within the reader. Also unclear is the mechanism by which social contract energy distorts refracted light rays. More study is underway.

Prospects: The SFR may be used to help explore the creative dynamic between the building and the dismantling of the social contract through time. It may also be useful as a creative censorship efficacy tool to help society keep its social contract dynamic within accepted parameters.

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Social Filiment Refractor