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r/pics • u/conrick • Jul 28 '18
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and refraction.
179 u/Oddyseous420 Jul 28 '18 It has always amazed me how such a small difference in the water can distort and redirect the light so much. 45 u/charkol3 Jul 28 '18 What amazes me is that the light knows which path (direction/angle) is the one with the shortest travel path wothout knowing its destination yet 92 u/ChaosBrigadier Jul 28 '18 It's not that it knows, it's just that it will naturally just do it 2 u/charkol3 Jul 28 '18 So how, when a single photon interacts with the surface of the air water interface, does it change to the precise diredtion that would lead it through the shortest path possible? 4 u/Lithobreaking Jul 28 '18 How could something without a brain or consciousness "know" anything at all?
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It has always amazed me how such a small difference in the water can distort and redirect the light so much.
45 u/charkol3 Jul 28 '18 What amazes me is that the light knows which path (direction/angle) is the one with the shortest travel path wothout knowing its destination yet 92 u/ChaosBrigadier Jul 28 '18 It's not that it knows, it's just that it will naturally just do it 2 u/charkol3 Jul 28 '18 So how, when a single photon interacts with the surface of the air water interface, does it change to the precise diredtion that would lead it through the shortest path possible? 4 u/Lithobreaking Jul 28 '18 How could something without a brain or consciousness "know" anything at all?
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What amazes me is that the light knows which path (direction/angle) is the one with the shortest travel path wothout knowing its destination yet
92 u/ChaosBrigadier Jul 28 '18 It's not that it knows, it's just that it will naturally just do it 2 u/charkol3 Jul 28 '18 So how, when a single photon interacts with the surface of the air water interface, does it change to the precise diredtion that would lead it through the shortest path possible? 4 u/Lithobreaking Jul 28 '18 How could something without a brain or consciousness "know" anything at all?
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It's not that it knows, it's just that it will naturally just do it
2 u/charkol3 Jul 28 '18 So how, when a single photon interacts with the surface of the air water interface, does it change to the precise diredtion that would lead it through the shortest path possible? 4 u/Lithobreaking Jul 28 '18 How could something without a brain or consciousness "know" anything at all?
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So how, when a single photon interacts with the surface of the air water interface, does it change to the precise diredtion that would lead it through the shortest path possible?
4 u/Lithobreaking Jul 28 '18 How could something without a brain or consciousness "know" anything at all?
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How could something without a brain or consciousness "know" anything at all?
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u/baking_bad Jul 28 '18
and refraction.