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Originally Posted by LadyShea
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Originally Posted by peacegirl
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Originally Posted by peacegirl
A photon is not shaking hands with one's own reflected image. It's shaking hands with itself because the mirror image is one and the same.
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A photon being absorbed by camera film is a physical interaction just as two people shaking hands is.
In fact, every time you try to explain it, use the shaking hands analogy. How could two people (representing 1. a single photon and 2. a piece of camera film), separated by 93 million miles, shake hands? If it won't work for shaking hands it won't work for taking a photograph.
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Originally Posted by peacegirl
The image and the object are in two locations, but not the photon which converges at the exact image point to allow the reflection to be seen.
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How can two people converge to shake hands if they are separated by 93 million miles? |
First, you need to picture the outside world, or your entire field of vision, as a big screen, not just one object. I don't think you've done that. Then I can show you where the photons interact with the retina and film. |
What do you mean "not just one object"? I don't think of the world as one object. A screen is 2 dimensional and flat and being projected on. That won't work as an analogy. |
I'm trying to make a distinction between light leaving an object and traveling 93 million miles, and looking at the world outside of you as a two-dimensional screen. Remember, the brain interprets 3-D, so please let's not go there at this point.