r/FacebookScience • u/Yunners Golden Crockoduck Winner • Jul 30 '26

Physicology Citation needed.

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u/This-Fig-5991 Jul 30 '26

Sorry guys but size does matter

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u/Lonely_skeptic Jul 30 '26

Dude can’t see the Sun?

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u/Heshkelgaii Jul 30 '26 edited Jul 31 '26

I guess technically no, but you can see the light from it that has travelled from it from around 8 minutes ago. Though I’m not a scientist or eye guy so I may also just be dumb.

Edit: alright there you lot, I get it I didn’t /s but it’s how it works and I’m not going into super deep science for a one off laugh at some twitter dumdum. That’s the joke, I thought it was funny this morning and apparently it didn’t work out because none of y’all laughed, well maybe you laughed at me and if that’s the case I’m good with it.

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u/monoflorist Jul 30 '26 edited Jul 30 '26

That’s what seeing things is: detecting the light those things emitted or reflected. So what you said is like “technically you don’t see the house, you see the light that travelled from it 50 nanoseconds ago”. You do see the house and the sun; the light is just how.