This makes me think of peek-a-boo level object permanence. …
This makes me think of peek-a-boo level object permanence.
Sophistry?
The element of truth in that, is that light photons don’t emit if there is nothing to receive them. The stars you see knew you’d be there when the photons were emitted millennia ago.
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But then of course they do. They travel at c - so from the photons perspective your retina is touching the surface of the emitting star.