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Originally Posted by peacegirl
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Originally Posted by Vivisectus
Hang on - how does light that surround the object make the eyes of the subject dilate? Does that not mean it would have to travel from the object to the subject anyway? This would once again mean that there IS a delay - and we might as well say that it is light we are picking up, as light has to always accompany this mystery medium that makes sight work. Occam's Razor would then suggest scrap the sight-ether and stick with just light.
And no matter what anyone might think of DavidM's extra-caustic delivery with caustic-sauce on the side and a side-order of caustic, (devastating put-downs are considered a form of art on this board, don't take it personally) you have to admit it takes a bit more than an open mind to think that photons hang around, inactive, to be activated by the sun's... what? Some sort of mystery radiation? It flies in the face of everything we know about photons - stuff we have tested, re-tested, and that works!
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Vivisecus, I don't know how this mechanism might work, but I hope you don't negate it just because we don't know the mechanism. That's all I'm asking. I'm not asking people to change what is proven to be true. But this knowledge is up for grabs, whether you hate this fact or not. No one is exempt, not even this forum who are full of scientific thinkers. |
One of the reasons why I suggested you read
Origin of Species is exactly because Darwin did not know the mechanism behind evolution, but that did not deter him from taking his observations and producing a coherent argument.
That said, the section of Lessan's book on vision and light does not accurately reflect observations in the natural world. You should read
The Lone Ranger's post On the Anatomy and Physiology of Sight. It's not that science is totally fixed on the mechanisms of sight, but it's unlikely a radical new conception of how sight works is likely unseat the current theory without a lot of proof. The book does not have adequate proof, and that proof cannot be found.
At one point, you claimed that light does not contain information. This is patently false. If light could not contain information, you couldn't post to this forum, as most modern data networks are built with fiber optic cabling. You know... light. There is so much modern technology that would fail to work correctly if our current understanding of how light works is wrong. Lessan's observations would have to take hundreds of years of science into account in order to get even marginal acceptance.