Comments on: #138 Photons Relax

By: andrew

andrew — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:54:54 +0000

lindamp: says

are you suggesting that there are mini photons? Maybe they are emitted by dwarf stars.

tee hee!

By: Lindamp

Lindamp — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:18:57 +0000

I feel better now that I know you don’t understand it any better than I did! (I did know that the squiggly equals means approximate, but you weren’t to know that).

If photons don’t have children, then are you suggesting that there are mini photons? Maybe they are emitted by dwarf stars.

By: grj

grj — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:54:02 +0000

Well, what do you think would happen if you brought two photons together, with enough enthusiasm (err, energy).

By: andrew

andrew — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:21:20 +0000

sorry about the brain. The joke is just that in Invisibulia the laws of light are only approximate. So the equation is only “approximately equal” — that’s the squiggly equals sign. If it makes you feel better, I don’t understand Maxwell’s equations either, but I do know what “equals” means. Notice how the joke got even weaker when I tried to explain it?

I got fed up drawing the children. They are probably playing hide and seek somewhere.

Wait, you think photons have children?

By: Lindamp

Lindamp — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:43:40 +0000

OK, so I had to Wiki Maxwell’s equations and now my brain hurts!
And what’s happened to the children?