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No. We live in a world full of wavelengths. Our brains are giving us a way to see them. The laser scan is further from the truth of reality than vision as it
by Xss3 1y ago
No. We live in a world full of wavelengths. Our brains are giving us a way to see them.
The laser scan is further from the truth of reality than vision as it has less information about reality captured & displayed.
- moralestapia 1y agoThis.
- stronglikedan 1y ago> We live in a world full of wavelengths. Our brains are giving us a way to see them. Nitpick, but if we're talking about the world full of wavelengths, our brain gives us many ways to experience them!
- Xss3 1y agoNot sure what nit you're trying to pick. I said see (as in vision, sight, the convo context!), not experience, and a way, not the only way.
- weinzierl 1y agoYou mean perceive, like an insect bobbing up and down in the corner of a swimming pool?
- Wowfunhappy 1y agoWell, but you can't pass through a solid object, right? There's a real "thing" there, it's not just a specific wavelength. I realize "thing" is doing a lot of work in the above sentence, and that everything is all just particles. Still, I think there's something to the idea that form and shape are more real than color.
- Xss3 1y agoHow are you defining a solid object with 'no wavelength'? Black would be the perceived colour, or lackthereof, of said object. The laser would see it the same as any colour of cube though. The point is eyes are extracting more information from the image. Visible light interactions with the object exists in reality and capturing that information brings the image closer to reality, not further. It tells you more about the cubes properties. As an extreme example, you might have a space documentary start by showing an image with a few stars, saying "it seems quiet", then showing the same image with a bunch of colourful gasses visible, saying 'but the reality is beyond what our eyes can perceive, in infrared the image is full of detail'. Reality, actual reality and not our perception of it, is made up of every detail, the more of that information you can capture the closer to reality the image.
- vlovich123 1y ago> Well, but you can't pass through a solid object, right? There's a real "thing" there, it's not just a specific wavelength. FWIW the "solid" object you're observing is mostly space and the "you can't pass through a solid object" as far as we know is just a probability not a certainty.
- mensetmanusman 1y agoNot particles, fields
- widforss 1y agoNobody tells you, but it's fields. It's always fields.
- moralestapia 1y agoalways_has_been.png