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5 Sep 2024 03:22:40 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Trivial trigonometry  
From: Invisible
Date: 25 Nov 2009 04:27:23
Message: <4b0cf87b@news.povray.org>
scott wrote:

> According to this page:
> 
> http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Quantum/see_a_photon.html
> 
> A rod in your eye must receive about 5-9 photons over 100 ms to tell 
> your brain that something is there.  That is a pretty damn small amount 
> of light.

And THAT is why when it's dark, everything seems "sparkly", I presume.


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