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Interesting. That has a nice symmetry, that to intercept light you need to move a charge in your eye that counters the original wave.
What I was referring to particularly was the quantum mechanical aspect: the wave propagates from the source in three dimensions -- an expanding sphere of information. Yet as soon as your eye detects the light, the entire wave collapses into a particle. And this is instantaneous, with no delay.
But that's QM, outside my pay grade.
Well, it you believe in a collapse postulate. Which I don't think many people around here do.
You know, I didn't even know that was the same thing as the collapse postulate. So when people talk about the 'collapse of the wave function', they're talking about -- for example -- the perception of light. OK, sure, that makes sense.
So our solution to that was Many Worlds...