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BradleyUffner@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Yep! The only way to “see” a photon is to actually absorb it. You can’t just detect it as it goes by, it has to be absorbed and reemitted, and that has an effect on it.

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