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6 Aug 2024 06:13:46 EDT (-0400)
  Re: highlight question  
From: Dave Dunn
Date: 10 May 2002 14:12:35
Message: <3CDC0D7D.D82A20AA@aol.com>
Christoph Hormann wrote:

> In real life there are neither highlights nor blurred reflections, only
> waves, photons, atoms and a lot of interferences and even those are only
> fairly accurate models.

Not quite true. The "Real World," what physicists refer to as "local
non-contextual reality," is composed of cars, trees, planets, apples, people
and computers. In this reality, specular highlights are indeed blurred
reflections.Wwaves, photons, atoms and quantum entanglements (interferences)
can only be measured indirectly and are not what most people consider part of
the the real world. A good joke, but a straight answer might have sufficed
here.


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