• SailorFuzz@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    How could they see the target if not for another light particle having bankshot off it from even greater lightyears away and landed in their periphery?

  • AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    18 days ago

    What a misleading comic. The photon is cheating because it’s actually a wave existing everywhere and then just has to decide to collapse in the cow’s eye.

    /s

  • merc@sh.itjust.works
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    18 days ago

    What’s wild is how many photons miss. 10E45 photons being emitted per second by a star, and the vast majority of them go out in a direction where there’s nothing to hit.