11-03-2024, 10:12 AM
The emissive particle model of light makes no sense. For example, a "photon" will take the route through a series of mirrors and lenses such that it travels from the source to the eye in the least possible amount of time, even if that path isn't the shortest or direct one. It will immediately "set out" on the right path to achieve this, before "encountering" anything that might "deflect" it:
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(This is called Fermat's principle)
How does it "know"? If you ask a physicist, they will say something like "Oh yeah, photons don't really exist". Thanks guys.
If I can restate your hypothesis a little, it would be that there are entoptic predictor structures in the brain, perhaps of some quantum effect, that anticipate stimulation before measurable cause, and that those predictors may on rare occasion be "fooled" or otherwise made inaccurate, causing inexplicable visual phenomena of things that don't measurably exist external to perception. Like some impressions of UFOs, orbs, sprites, fey, phosphene-laser satellites, etc. Perhaps the discrepancy is caused by some type of cloaking, editing of possible timelines, or other unknown active meddling technology.
I guess the key to testing this would be to, say, shine a blinking flashlight on your eyes in the mirror, and interfere with the blinking mechanism in various ways. Make it random, with different timings. Have it human-mediated. Link it to a photoreceptor aimed at Sirius. See if you can generate those "phantom presentments".
(This is called Fermat's principle)
How does it "know"? If you ask a physicist, they will say something like "Oh yeah, photons don't really exist". Thanks guys.
If I can restate your hypothesis a little, it would be that there are entoptic predictor structures in the brain, perhaps of some quantum effect, that anticipate stimulation before measurable cause, and that those predictors may on rare occasion be "fooled" or otherwise made inaccurate, causing inexplicable visual phenomena of things that don't measurably exist external to perception. Like some impressions of UFOs, orbs, sprites, fey, phosphene-laser satellites, etc. Perhaps the discrepancy is caused by some type of cloaking, editing of possible timelines, or other unknown active meddling technology.
I guess the key to testing this would be to, say, shine a blinking flashlight on your eyes in the mirror, and interfere with the blinking mechanism in various ways. Make it random, with different timings. Have it human-mediated. Link it to a photoreceptor aimed at Sirius. See if you can generate those "phantom presentments".
