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icarus · 03-20-2008, 03:54 PM

This takes me back to a thread I posted a number of years ago: if these rays have been constantly diverging from each other for the past 7.5 billion years how can it be that there are enough of them fitting through my pupil at once in order for me to see it. Pretty amazing to think that a quantum of radiation released at least 7.5 billion years ago ended up landing in my eye (or I guess passing through my head).

03-20-2008, 03:54 PM	#21
icarus Franchise Player Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Singapore Exp:	This takes me back to a thread I posted a number of years ago: if these rays have been constantly diverging from each other for the past 7.5 billion years how can it be that there are enough of them fitting through my pupil at once in order for me to see it. Pretty amazing to think that a quantum of radiation released at least 7.5 billion years ago ended up landing in my eye (or I guess passing through my head). __________________ Shot down in Flames!