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Unbelievable how much we can work out from just the odd photon hitting us from somewhere in the great unknown.
by FredPret 3y ago
Unbelievable how much we can work out from just the odd photon hitting us from somewhere in the great unknown.
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- golemotron 3y agoOccam's Razor does a lot of heavy lifting.
- daxfohl 3y agoIt's astounding to me that space is so empty that in the billions of light years from here to the edge of the universe, there's orders of magnitude less total interference than what you get from a small cloud. It's also astounding that celestial objects emit enough photons that thousands per second travel within the arc that goes the distance from the star to somewhere inside the radius of your pupil. And if this wasn't the case, then we'd never even be aware of any of this.
- suzzer99 3y agoAlso that the light and gravitational waves from colliding neutron stars can travel 100 million light years and arrive at earth within a second of each other. That's a mind-bogglingly small amount of drag.
- CobrastanJorji 3y ago"The odd photon hitting us" is also a pretty good description of eyesight, radio, and fiber optics.
- fooker 3y agoClearly the even photon is for parity checking and error correction ;)