I just had the weirdest thought. How long does a particle of light last? We can see from the James Webb space telescope the state of galaxies billions of light years away. Light its my eyes, I register it in my visual cortex, but what about that light? Where'd it go? Animal eyes at night suggest maybe we're just shooting weak light beams out of our eyes all of the time. So it can bounce of something else later.
All that new light from the sun though: is there a pile/pool of used light somewhere?
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