To elaborate, what was most interesting about the perspective was that I realized that while I wasn’t directly interacting with the objects, we were causally entangled (and thus interacting indirectly) via these electromagnetic waves. The perspective paid rent, in some sense, in that now I had a much better understanding of light scattering in general (and different kinds of mirages specifically) and I found it amazing that this kind of interference doesn’t happen more often. We are literally in a bath of these EM waves (the ones that I can see) and they are just bouncing around until they hit something. The thing that they hit—all the things that I see—catches them and destroys them (collapses the wave), so that what I actually see is a new EM wave that the thing emits a moment later.
To elaborate, what was most interesting about the perspective was that I realized that while I wasn’t directly interacting with the objects, we were causally entangled (and thus interacting indirectly) via these electromagnetic waves. The perspective paid rent, in some sense, in that now I had a much better understanding of light scattering in general (and different kinds of mirages specifically) and I found it amazing that this kind of interference doesn’t happen more often. We are literally in a bath of these EM waves (the ones that I can see) and they are just bouncing around until they hit something. The thing that they hit—all the things that I see—catches them and destroys them (collapses the wave), so that what I actually see is a new EM wave that the thing emits a moment later.