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5 Sep 2024 11:21:50 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Trivial trigonometry  
From: Darren New
Date: 30 Nov 2009 13:19:05
Message: <4b140c99$1@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:
> I doubt your eyes can see single photons anyway...

Somewhere between 5 and 10 over the course of 100 ms, for humans.

> Well, the books seem to claim that it *is* caused by waves, 

Those books are wrong. It's the same *math* as waves, but it isn't waves.

> babble some nonesense about a "quantum superposition of states" to make 
> up for the fact that this explanation makes no sense at all.

It's only nonsense if you don't know what it means.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Human nature dictates that toothpaste tubes spend
   much longer being almost empty than almost full.


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