POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Surprise! : Re: Surprise! Server Time
11 Oct 2024 19:15:36 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Surprise!  
From: Invisible
Date: 9 Nov 2007 04:49:59
Message: <47342d47@news.povray.org>
Darren New wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>> bizare that electronic properties should actually affect optical ones, 
>> but there we are.)
> 
> Actually, the only interactions that take place outside the nucleus are 
> between electrons (and antielectrons, I guess) and photons, so it seems 
> pretty *necessary* more than *bizarre*. :-)

Well, sure, at quantum scales perhaps. At macroscopic scales? Well, 
let's put it this way: there's no simple, easily observable correlation 
between these variables in everyday life. I'm not denying that whoever 
wrote this thing knew what they were talking about...


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