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An Interesting thing About Light
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RE: An Interesting thing About Light
October 26, 2017 at 6:56 pm
The photons don't disappear, they are scattered or absorbed by solid objects.

If our sun were to wink out right now, we wouldn't know it visually for about 8 minutes. Alpha Centauri, 4.4 years
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An Interesting thing About Light - by Rhondazvous - October 26, 2017 at 6:41 pm
RE: An Interesting thing About Light - by Silver - October 26, 2017 at 6:44 pm
RE: An Interesting thing About Light - by Jackalope - October 26, 2017 at 6:56 pm
RE: An Interesting thing About Light - by ignoramus - October 26, 2017 at 7:16 pm
RE: An Interesting thing About Light - by Rhondazvous - October 27, 2017 at 10:33 am
RE: An Interesting thing About Light - by ignoramus - October 27, 2017 at 6:11 pm
RE: An Interesting thing About Light - by Aegon - October 27, 2017 at 6:24 pm
RE: An Interesting thing About Light - by Fireball - October 27, 2017 at 8:36 pm
RE: An Interesting thing About Light - by c152 - October 28, 2017 at 1:35 pm
RE: An Interesting thing About Light - by Rhondazvous - October 28, 2017 at 6:30 pm
RE: An Interesting thing About Light - by Jackalope - October 31, 2017 at 5:14 pm
RE: An Interesting thing About Light - by vorlon13 - October 28, 2017 at 2:29 pm
RE: An Interesting thing About Light - by vorlon13 - October 28, 2017 at 6:54 pm
RE: An Interesting thing About Light - by Rhondazvous - October 31, 2017 at 5:05 pm
RE: An Interesting thing About Light - by Cyberman - October 31, 2017 at 5:33 pm

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