A Revolution in Thought: Part Two

[peacegirl]

Originally Posted by peacegirl

LadyShea, picture that you're looking at an large object in space, and picture the (P) reflected light at your retina. That's the physical location. Your retina or the film interacts with the (P) light as you focus on the object. If the camera is focused on an object but the objects surrounding it are not in focus, that is the mirror image that will be at the film. Some of the photograph will be in focus and some of it will be blurred.

I think the word (P) reflect is still confusing people. You have to imagine the object absorbing certain wavelengths so when we look at it, the remaining non-absorbed light reveals the object; it does not send the object into space/time which involves traveling photons. That is why it matches up with our eyes, in real time, as a mirror image. There is nothing traveling at all, which the word "reflect" implies.