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Sabrina Kilian wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>> I doubt your eyes can see single photons anyway...
>
> If the photon hits a rod cell in the eye, then yes. Whether the brain
> would process this over the photon flux of your surroundings would be up
> for question. In total darkness, I think you would see it.
It's true that in very low light conditions, vision takes on a
"speckley" character, presumably due to some combination of small
numbers of photons or small numbers of individual nerve impulses
generating a fairly noisey signal. I'm not sure whether one single
photon is enough to generate a nerve action potential though; maybe it
takes 10 or so?
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