The Picard ManeuverThe speed of light
Sunforged
lumpenproletariatThe human eye can’t see over 1.
It’s deeper than that as we have instruments to measure things we can’t personally perceive.
From everything we know it’s quite literally the limit the universe can update. For the photon moving at light speed time quite literally doesn’t exist. When you look up at the stars, for the photons hitting your eye balls their experience is that creation to reception is instantaneous. The millions or billions of years we perceive it traveled doesn’t exist at that speed.
I just think that’s neat.
That’s beautifully written. I like the idea that I receive cute lil interstellar photons. The stochastic nature of the universe means I am being irradiated by an interstellar object thousands of years away. They started a journey from a star thousands of years ago, crossed the vast expanse of space without hitting anything, pierced our planet’s atmosphere as our planet and system hurtle through space, and was then absorbed by a single cone cell in my eye. It almost feels unbelievable.