why do things look smaller when you get farther away from them?
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Anonymous2006-07-16 23:18
Light is bent by gravity. As you get farther away from them, the light that is reflected from the objects are bent more and more by the gravitational fields of surrounding planets, thus inverting into a close quadruplet semi bohr-eisenstien wave duality. When this wave hits your eyes, it collapses into a solid particle the shape of the object for thousands time smaller. therefore it appears smaller.
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Anonymous2006-07-17 1:23
The perceived size of a thing is proportional to the size of its image on the retina. Each small spot on the retina samples light that comes from a roughly cone-shaped region of space. Now, consider an object with an image perpendicular to the viewing axis that is enclosed by a circle. If you change the distance from your eye(s) to the object, then the apex angle of the cone whose base is that circle and whose apex is the center of your eye lens decreases. The size of your eye does not change, so the image of the object on the retina must shrink, and the object appears smaller.
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Anonymous2006-07-17 5:49
>>3
you fail at physics. that is a simple but flawed explanation that is given to satisfy those who can't understand the more intricate details of quantum mechanical fibrostic fluctuations.