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...and I was sober.
    #9579128 - 01/09/09 07:32 PM (15 years, 4 months ago)

I was outside smoking a cigarette.  I spit on the sidewalk.  When I looked down I noticed that the spit was glowing brightly.  It took a second to realize that I was at the perfect angle for the moon to be reflecting off the spit.  It was then that I began to contemplate the amazing lifetime of a photon.

So a photon was born in the sun.  It then reflected off the moon.  It then reflected off the spit on my sidewalk before it reached me.  And I realized that with the right equipment and angle you could have taken a picture of my eyeball which showed the spit-reflection bouncing off of my eye.  Of course, that camera lens would have reflected some of that light again.....and so on.

I guess this could go on indefinitely.  I think the fact that I was sober when this stream of thoughts rolled through my head was the most surprising part.  This kind of thing usually hits me during an intoxicated state.


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Re: ...and I was sober. [Re: ToTheSummit]
    #9579189 - 01/09/09 07:44 PM (15 years, 4 months ago)

BTW- in case anyone wondered why I put this in the S&T forum...well, if I had put it in the Pub the only replies would've been..."What the hell is a photon?"
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Re: ...and I was sober. [Re: ToTheSummit]
    #9579344 - 01/09/09 08:04 PM (15 years, 4 months ago)

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ToTheSummit said:
"What the hell is a photon?"
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I think I saw an infomercial for one of those.


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Re: ...and I was sober. [Re: ToTheSummit]
    #9579592 - 01/09/09 08:35 PM (15 years, 4 months ago)

*adjusts asthma inhaler*
Well technically the photon could be destroyed when hitting an object like the moon, and its energy absorbed by the moon only to be released again as a new photon, not unlike the phoenix arising from its own ashes.

Or something like that. Great post though! :cheers:


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Re: ...and I was sober. [Re: ToTheSummit]
    #14688934 - 06/28/11 10:00 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

Happened again to me tonight.  Crazy to think that somewhere out there is a photon, rocketing through space, that bounced off of me.


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