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  2. From: mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Mcirvin)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.physics
  4. Subject: Re: Wave/particle duality
  5. Keywords: photon,particle,dual slits,interference,quantum waves
  6. Message-ID: <mcirvin.716568738@husc8>
  7. Date: 15 Sep 92 14:52:18 GMT
  8. References: <BuJEy1.Gz5@nntp-sc.Intel.COM> <1992Sep14.032341.19533@asl.dl.nec.com> 
  9.  <1992Sep14.201601.24668@riacs.edu> <1992Sep14.235046.5270@galois.mit.edu>
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  12. jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez) writes:
  13.  
  14. >namely molecules of some sort that respond to light (the word
  15. >"rhodopsin" comes to mind but I really don't know), 
  16.  
  17. Rhodopsin is the pigment that responds to light in the rods.  It
  18. isn't associated with color vision, but is what you see with in
  19. low light levels.
  20. -- 
  21. Matt McIrvin, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 
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