What's that stuff around light that moves?

[fjpod]

I think I've got a plausible explanation that goes back to the days of Wade Boggs (3rd baseman for the Red Sox) chasing Teddy Ballgames batting 400 for a season. Wade like Ted had extraordinary vision. Something like 20/10 and could see the stitches on a baseballs rotation and know what kind of pitch was coming. He went through a period where complained about a wave interfering with his sight.

After different specialists tried glasses and contacts I believe it was an OD that came up with the answer. "Just blink" he told him. Problem solved!

He was seeing his tears wash across his corneas!

more than likely, he was experiencing cortical suppression of his vision. When we hold our fixation too intently on something, with no movement of the eye or much of the surround, our brain "whites out" what we see. Our visual system, in some ways is designed to detect movement, as in looking cor food or avoiding predators, so lack of movement results in less visual input to the brain.

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/207/4433/900. This link explains part of it...why we don't see our own blinks normally.

There also has been a series on the science channel called Brain Games which shows examples of how our brains alter our vision and perception...interesting stuff.

[Steve Machol]

There also has been a series on the science channel called Brain Games which shows examples of how our brains alter our vision and perception...interesting stuff.

That's an excellent series. It's on the National Geographic Channel on Monday nights.

[uncut]

I don't think you understood my point. Regardless of the scenario, my imagination led me to believe that light comes in discrete packets ...before reading about corpuscles.

Do you know what the difference is between getting something & just getting something done? It's going beyond what is refined. You'll have to forgive me for trying to learn. I'd most certainly rather question something & be wrong than take something for granted only to question it later.

We never got a reference book as to why nature works the way it does & we never will get a reference book as to why nature works the way it does

So maybe you should think twice about what you believe to be true, & reconsider opinions like mine.

You should be nice to your neighbors anyway


You can't view science as "set in stone." It's one of the most cumulative disciplines. If there weren't people like me questioning it, it wouldn't go anywhere.

*Let's just assume my theory was correct.

Photons don't really have "various masses" though, do they? I mean, one type of particle has one mass value for that type of particle. In other words, particles that gain or lose mass would then become some other type of particle.

^Does this contradict the idea of the higgs boson (God particle)?

I like your thinking JSK.....when you lick the problems with time travel/teleportation, we want to be the first to congratulate you. Good luck(s).

You can induce the phenomena JSK is discussing with the chord holes/space in a partially closed venetian blind during a sunset...........