I once had the chance to talk to a famous mathematician & I mentioned optical illusions. Him: But *all* vision is an illusion.
Is it? I thought it might be relevant coz it explained why its more useful for us to see things as they aren't.
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It's complicated! But we can't see through things cos of the properties of light. Light waves have a size.
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When that size is bigger than the spacing between particles, it's too big to pass through. (Simplified for Twitter)
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OK, so a different reason for it appearing solid than because it was useful for us to see it that way.
End of conversation
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It is another useful example that's beneficial to catalog, so we can be less certain about what we think we see.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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