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If there were a species that had no organ for sensing photons, when would they first discover the existence of photons and how do you think they would think of them?

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If there were a species that had no organ for sensing photons, when would they first be able to detect the existence of photons?

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If we had a powerful enough telescope to see at the atomic level millions of light-years away, what would we see?

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Do our brains intrinsically understand or approximate the laws of physics like momentum, projectile physics, etc.? What about for quantum physics? Do our brains have systems for approximating things like Schrodinger's equation and wave function interactions?

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I came across a spider web with no one home today so now I'm curious: why would a spider leave its web unattended?; what do they do when they're not home?

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What exactly does it mean for quarks to combine into protons in terms of quantum field theory? How do the waves in the quark fields "combine"?

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Since the universe has expanded since the big bang, do objects from times near the big bang look blown up in size to us?

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If there were a species that had no organ for sensing photons, when would they first discover the existence of photons and how do you think they would think of them?	1
If there were a species that had no organ for sensing photons, when would they first be able to detect the existence of photons?	1
If we had a powerful enough telescope to see at the atomic level millions of light-years away, what would we see?	1
Do our brains intrinsically understand or approximate the laws of physics like momentum, projectile physics, etc.? What about for quantum physics? Do our brains have systems for approximating things like Schrodinger's equation and wave function interactions?	1
I came across a spider web with no one home today so now I'm curious: why would a spider leave its web unattended?; what do they do when they're not home?	1
What exactly does it mean for quarks to combine into protons in terms of quantum field theory? How do the waves in the quark fields "combine"?	1
Since the universe has expanded since the big bang, do objects from times near the big bang look blown up in size to us?	1