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minus-squarescarilog@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 days agoDisagree on eyes. Light is EM radiation, not a mechanical wave like sound. Your retina isn’t ‘touching’ anything but the vitreous.
minus-squarekautau@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 days agoThough isn’t it a stream of photons that hit the photoreceptors? So not touch in the mechanical sense, but things are still “touching” in the colliquial sense, like a very minute and specialized version of smell
Disagree on eyes. Light is EM radiation, not a mechanical wave like sound. Your retina isn’t ‘touching’ anything but the vitreous.
Though isn’t it a stream of photons that hit the photoreceptors? So not touch in the mechanical sense, but things are still “touching” in the colliquial sense, like a very minute and specialized version of smell