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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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      • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’m familiar with the structure, but don’t the electrical and magnetic waves smoothly translate across space? They aren’t “absorbed and emitted by successive regions of space”, right?

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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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