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   Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 11:15:15 JST Fediverse Contractor
   I don’t understand how light works.
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 11:21:14 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     • CJ (Da Sheriff)🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️
     No, I understand colours, I mean reflected light specifically.
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     CJ (Da Sheriff)🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ (colonelj@seal.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 11:21:15 JST CJ (Da Sheriff)🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️

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     like colors?
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 11:42:43 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     • CJ (Da Sheriff)🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️
     No, reflected light does not equal colours.
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     CJ (Da Sheriff)🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ (colonelj@seal.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 11:42:44 JST CJ (Da Sheriff)🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️

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     reflected light = colors
     
     maybe you mean refraction?
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 11:46:37 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     • Maholmire
     I understand the basic physics of light, that’s not what I’m talking about. Btw you need to make your posts shorter if you expect me to read them and also stop removing ppl from the conversation.
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     Maholmire (maholmire@crlf.ninja)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 11:46:38 JST Maholmire

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     As the sociopathic kids burning insects with a magnifying glass later growing up into the world's serial killers found out. Light itself is pretty nebulous and not easily observable unless concentrated into a beam by a prism or otherwise used to illuminate an area where there is a notable absence of it.
     
     It acts as both a particle and a wavelength and can change between either state when unobserved. These facts have been proven in an experiment conducted where light was sent between two holes. As predicted, the light split up into two separate rays which illuminated the background beyond the two holes. This experiment was repeated in different ways under different circumstances and found that light, like electricity or water, prefers to follow the path of least residence to its destination. That appeared to confirm that it was both a wavelength and particle as scientists. They also noticed that the Light could change depending on whether it was being observed or not. Pretty strange stuff to say the least. Light, or matter that behaves in a similar manner to it can also be trapped inside an inverted prism and bounced around indefinitely while retaining most of the energy it had, which people suspect is the key behind getting fusion reactors to work.
     
     All and all, some pretty interesting stuff when you take the time to look at the physics behind light itself.
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     Maholmire (maholmire@crlf.ninja)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 11:47:28 JST Maholmire

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     Light shining through my window onto a table the other day produced a rainbow effect on my floor that was mesmerizing to see. The reason the light split into its rudimentary components is probably because of the surface it was reflecting from but it is still nonetheless interesting to see those range of colours appear.
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     FWC (fuckingwhocaresdude@5dollah.click)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 11:47:28 JST FWC

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     • Maholmire
     @Maholmire @bot That's refraction, not reflection
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 11:49:10 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     • Maholmire
     I just think these long directional reflections are strange. I understand light scattering and all of that but it still doesn’t seem right.
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     KitlerIs6" (kitleris6@seal.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 11:50:47 JST KitlerIs6"

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     • CJ (Da Sheriff)🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️
     >colours
     😒🇬🇧
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 11:50:47 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     • CJ (Da Sheriff)🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️
     You know it’s not just the UK right?
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     KitlerIs6" (kitleris6@seal.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 11:54:46 JST KitlerIs6"

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     • CJ (Da Sheriff)🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️
     What don't you understand about reflections btw?
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 11:54:46 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     • KitlerIs6"
     • CJ (Da Sheriff)🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️
     I just posted a pic.
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 12:00:12 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     • Maholmire
     Yes professor, I know water is reflective. It’s just strange how well defined it is esp when the reflection is just as strong in any direction.
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     Maholmire (maholmire@crlf.ninja)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 12:00:13 JST Maholmire

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     Water is reflective so it's probably just the light from the car bouncing from the wet surface back out to those observing it.
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 12:08:32 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     • CJ (Da Sheriff)🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️
     The concepts aren’t really related. I think you’re confused because I’m smarter than you.
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     CJ (Da Sheriff)🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ (colonelj@seal.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 12:08:33 JST CJ (Da Sheriff)🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️

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     what color is reflected light then :blobcatthink: ?
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 12:13:14 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     • Maholmire
     You’re over explaining basic stuff. It’s more about the direction of scattering based on where you’re looking from.
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     Maholmire (maholmire@crlf.ninja)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 12:13:15 JST Maholmire

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     Car headlights reflect on the road in the scattered way they do because of the total internal reflection happening between the road and the glass or mirror on the car's surface. When light from another vehicle's headlights or ambient light sources hits the surface of the side mirror at a specific angle.
     
     it undergoes multiple reflections within the glass or mirror material. Total internal reflection happens when the light strikes the boundary between the glass and the air at an angle greater than the critical angle for that material. The result is the weird scattering of light you might see on the road ahead of a moving car that may end up further distorted by wet surfaces as we've established previously.
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 12:19:33 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     • CJ (Da Sheriff)🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️
     Below the mirror? Mirrors make sense to me, this is really when it’s not perfectly reflective like the road pic I posted
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     David Bucienski :verified: (davidb@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 12:19:34 JST David Bucienski :verified:

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     • CJ (Da Sheriff)🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️

     @bot @colonelj same here, I don't understand how looking down into a mirror I can see what is below the mirror.

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     Maholmire (maholmire@crlf.ninja)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 12:21:17 JST Maholmire

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     The glass of the windows and car headlights can also reflect the light on the surface back to it.
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 12:21:17 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     • Maholmire
     I’m going to ignore you if you remove ppls tags from the conversation, js.
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     KitlerIs6" (kitleris6@seal.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 12:23:27 JST KitlerIs6"

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     I believe what's going on there is that the water is uneven, so it is more scattering the light when it reflects it than properly mirroring it. Each part of the street is reflecting light from all sorts of directions to all other sorts of directions. You only see the headlights though because the headlights are by far the brightest source of light hitting the street. As a result, the headlights are reflected to your eyes from a much greater area of the street than they would if the street was a perfect mirror.
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 12:23:27 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     • Maholmire
     Why is there so much scattering toward you but not in any other direction then? There should be some imo, not basically zero.
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 12:23:48 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     • Maholmire
     Wait are you using misskey?
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     Maholmire (maholmire@crlf.ninja)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 12:23:49 JST Maholmire

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     You know, you haven't tagged anyone on your post(s) either?
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 12:26:09 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     • Maholmire
     Ok well I did tag ppl in my posts, you just can’t see it. When you write emails do you include everyones email in the message? No, because that’s retarded.
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     Maholmire (maholmire@crlf.ninja)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 12:26:10 JST Maholmire

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     Pleroma. Though even if I didn't, I would still be manually removing people from my tags because I don't like getting consistently notified on threads I've since left and I don't want to subject anyone else to that either.
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 12:37:29 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     • FWC
     • KitlerIs6"
     • Maholmire
     My lying eyes?
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     FWC (fuckingwhocaresdude@5dollah.click)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 12:37:30 JST FWC

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     • KitlerIs6"
     • Maholmire
     @bot @Maholmire @KitlerIs6 who said it doesn't scatter in other directions?
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 12:38:05 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     • FWC
     • KitlerIs6"
     • Maholmire
     No, the second picture isn’t relevant, and the first picture isn’t really how it works.
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     KitlerIs6" (kitleris6@seal.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 12:38:06 JST KitlerIs6"

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     • Maholmire
     You mean why does it act like the first picture instead of the second?
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 12:44:09 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     • CJ (Da Sheriff)🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️
     That’s basically just drawing a line between your eyes and the thing you’re looking at with the mirror reflecting it.
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     David Bucienski :verified: (davidb@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 12:44:10 JST David Bucienski :verified:

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     • CJ (Da Sheriff)🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️

     @bot @colonelj like when you stand in front of a mirror that's above a sink. You can see the sink when looking at the mirror. I can't groking it.

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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 12:54:23 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     • CJ (Da Sheriff)🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️
     Yeah, x rays are absorbed by the body. 🥴
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     CJ (Da Sheriff)🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ (colonelj@seal.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 12:54:24 JST CJ (Da Sheriff)🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️

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     • David Bucienski :verified:
     absorbed
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     David Bucienski :verified: (davidb@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 12:54:25 JST David Bucienski :verified:

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     • CJ (Da Sheriff)🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️

     @colonelj @bot when it comes to color do we really know if the color not seen is absorbed by the object or if the object is transparent to that color (frequency).

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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 12:54:59 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     • CJ (Da Sheriff)🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️
     Well they are but you know what I mean.
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 12:57:25 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     • CJ (Da Sheriff)🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️
     Colours are a specific wavelength of em radiation, just like x rays professor.
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     CJ (Da Sheriff)🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ (colonelj@seal.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 12:57:26 JST CJ (Da Sheriff)🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️

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     • David Bucienski :verified:
     the conversation referred specifically to colors, genius 🥴