do shadows only exist where they fall on things?
@lycaon that's it innit
@lycaon course we talk about holes of various kinds all the time I guess and they're similar, possibly weirdest and most egregious being holes as positively charged particles
@bea i remember i was so fuckin stoked when i learned the dirac sea was a real(ish) thing and not just something made up by evangelion
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@amphetamine @bea @lycaon it's a thing you step on and it tells you your weight
@amphetamine @bea it's a difficult question because scale is impossible to describe. one might ask the same about birds. what are birds? we just don't know.
@pan there is but I think it's nice to say still
@bea this is some tree falls in the woods shit
@bea Arguably no? Two examples: you consider the area between a building and the ground that a shadow falls on as "in the shadows", and the Earth casts a shadow everywhere it covers the sun, not just where the sun would have reached otherwise.
@bea i think shadows consider themselves too deft and precise to "fall" anywhere. it's all intentional
@Triplefox @bea this is excellent
@bea [puts on bad metaphysics hat] can a shadow even be said to exist? or is it merely the absence of light on a surface?