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• kogasa@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is an interesting question. Instant acceleration is mathematically implausible, but I don’t know if there’s a better physical interpretation for what happens to a bouncing photon.

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  • Entropius@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    As a rule, it’s probably best to avoid “random” internet sources on matters of how light works because there’s so much confidently parroted misinformation out there. For example, this is completely wrong: youtu.be/FAivtXJOsiI See here for correct answers to that issue: youtu.be/CiHN0ZWE5bk

    For how mirrors work see this: scientificamerican.com/…/what-is-the-physical-pro… youtu.be/rYLzxcU6ROM

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  • sj_zero ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    There's a hard rule about quantum physics. It goes: "it's all fun and games until you're at the Quantum level, then everything is all fucked up"

    According to what we know, electrons don't "move between" energy states on an electron, they're just in one one moment and another the next. That's so disconnected from reality we perceive it still breaks my brain.

    • callyral@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      wait, so it’s like a floating-point precision error but with quantum mechanics?

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