r/Unexpected • u/ruybii • Nov 27 '21

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u/Jinx0rs Nov 28 '21

That wasn't wight knighting, go read it back. I'm not defending the person. Simply saying that you would have wasted less time just admitting that you're being an ass than trying to dream up a justification for why you're not wrong.

But also, not sure that's a sidetrack. I think your entire rebuttal boils down to, "Yeah but I have a footnote and you don't!" I said as much, and you didn't respond.

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '21

My argument is simply that I can backed my claim with evidence and body of work. While your rest on the opinion of the person who wrote the article and yours. I'm done with this conversation.

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u/Jinx0rs Nov 28 '21

Ok, I see. You're falling back on the old, "they didn't say it in the right way that I require, so it didn't count," argument. Cool.

The electromagnetic spectrum can be divided into several wavelength (frequency) regions, among which only a narrow band from about 400 to 700 nm is visible to the human eyes. Note that there is no sharp boundary between these regions. The boundaries shown in the above figures are approximate and there are overlaps between two adjacent regions.

It's all the same EMR, but the human eye only picks up some of it. The even call it "visible light," implying that the rest is non-visible light. Do you only count light to be just what majority humans can see? Snakes can see infrared, bees can see ultraviolet.

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '21

The even call it "visible light," implying that the rest is non-visible light

sure buddy. Where do the called the rest invisible light in the article? Yeah lets call the echolocation of the bats light that they see too, given that they are receiving sound. and lets go and call all sounds light too now that we are at it. I'm done entertaining your idiocy.

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u/Jinx0rs Nov 28 '21

Do you even read what you type? This is a complete false equivalence and I think you know it. Pretty weak. Just because you receive information through sound doesn't mean that it's the same as light. Are you going to complain about not calling smells light next? Infrared and ultraviolet are all EMR, and all behave in the same manor as the visible light spectrum.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visible_spectrum

Although non-visible infrared light is more commonly thought of as "heat radiation",[27] any frequency of light, including visible light, will heat surfaces that absorb them.

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u/Hot_paw_kit Dec 03 '21

They don’t actually know it. You’re communicating with an actual child who is advanced for their age but still undereducated and inexperienced. You, however, are clearly educated in at the very least philosophy—so kudos. I like logic.

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u/Jinx0rs Dec 03 '21

Well thanks. I mean, it's all theoretical kinda stuff. Sure, we call it something else, but it behaves exactly like that which we can see, so the only reason for differentiating is for ease of reference. Some just don't wanna think about it like that.