Photon, the image maker.

[PoPpAScience]

Does anyone know or understand why the Photon can absorb the image of that which it comes into contact with, then passes that image on to the next thing it comes in contact with?

[austintorn@aol.com]

To us, the amount of the photons could be the intensity of the object overall, plus its edges, the varying wavelengths could be the color and the texture and the reflective properties, the source directions of the photons could define the shape, all of which the brain interprets further and puts an even more distinct face on.

[PoPpAScience]

To us, the amount of the photons could be the intensity of the object overall, plus its edges, the varying wavelengths could be the color and the texture and the reflective properties, the source directions of the photons could define the shape, all of which the brain interprets further and puts an even more distinct face on.

Austin do you feel then that when we look into a mirror then, that all we are seeing is the reflected photons and and not an actual image imprinted upon the surface of the atoms of the mirror?

With what you said above then, the photon would have to have a very distinct shape and would have to change its texture each time it collided with an object. If this is so then, the photon would have to change texture when it strikes the eye, and thus would only pass on the information of a eyeball.

[austintorn@aol.com]

I think the photons reflect off of the mirror and that the imprint is the same decoded by the mind without a mirror because I see photons as being thrown off from the various 'atoms' constituting the object, even if the object really out there is like a wave 'smear' or interference pattern or whatever it's implementation by nature. Seems like individual photons carry the message bit by bit for which we need a brain as a tuner to find contours, apply colors (arbritary, but at least dinstinctive), and the like that lets us see an object on our terms. Some other species might make more or less of the objects information or interpret some aspects differently.

[PoPpAScience]

I woke up this morning thinking about if a photon actually just illuminates the atom it comes in contact with for the eye to see, instead of carrying the information to the eye. I am wondering this because if the photon carries the information to the eye, then it must choose which information to store. This must be so, because why does it not change its information from the atom in my hat, to the information of the eye, or the oxygen it bumped into on the way to the eye?

[austintorn@aol.com]

I think that many photons never get to us and that some lose energy along the way, and that a tremendous number miss our eyes altogether, but that apparently enough do get to us for us to see something, except for really far off galaxies. Probably the retina just takes in the photons' source directions, wavelengths, and whatnot for the amazing visual to sort out later and enhance and even add to as color, brightness, light, and more. (I say light, too, for it exists as such in both our dark waking heads and sleeping dreaming heads.)

Jimbo and others says how radiation comes in many frequencies, energies, and sizes.