Please sign - link to parliament/government website

My petition:

Stop the diagnosis of cancer, HIV and Ebola. Microscopes cannot view 'cells'.

Magnification occurs when we focus on a smaller area as if it were larger, which happens when we bring an object closer or look through a lens or into a cylinder. It increases as we move further from the object or use thicker or additional lenses. However, there are limits to magnification.

There are limits to lens magnification because after a point we focus on the lens itself rather than the object, so there is blurring, distortion, reduction, loss of visibility. In a microscope, the diameter of the final lens is too small, the tube is too short and too dimly lit, and the slide too close to the lens to even optimise magnification. Instead, we see projected a complex image of an object placed inside the microscope, the lens of our own eye above that, and the stain from the slide.

Click this link to sign the petition:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/129183/sponsors/v8A4tqZB6OpfcWSAMU

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