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Old 07-07-2014, 03:32 PM
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Default Re: A revolution in thought

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Originally Posted by davidm View Post
If I've done my own math correctly, light travels 982,080,000 feet in one second. That's nine-hundred-eighty-two-MILLION, eighty thousand feet in one second. Capice, peacegirl?

So figure out how long it would take light to travel two feet, posting a candle lighted two feet from your eyes. It's not instantaneous, it just seems that way.

I actually can't believe I am writing this to an adult person. She really thinks seeing a candle is instantaneous!
And you actually believe that we receive information from objects that have to travel in the light that far away and land on our eyes? What happens to the inverse square law? Logically speaking, wouldn't the light be so dispersed that there would be no way for the information in the light to show up on the retina?
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