Comment on Every star in the sky is interacting with you through gravity 🌌 We are all connected to the universe around us.

• LostXOR@fedia.io ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Technically the photon is being absorbed and re-emitted inside the star, so it's not exactly the same photon.

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  • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A “photon” is basically just the universe producing a new field in response to an existing one, repeatedly. So photons travel through space in much the same way: they are absorbed and emitted by successive regions of space, with each region being the photon’s wavelength in size.

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    • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s not really the same thing, as well as being afaik straight up wrong

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      • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Can you describe exactly how it is wrong, or is it just a feeling? Are you not familiar with the structure of an electromagnetic wave?

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    • LostXOR@fedia.io ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I'm not smart enough to understand that, but I'll believe you. :D

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