[Frenzie]

Originally Posted by AnotherCat

So you admit to just being confrontational and all but that in the second part of the quote above made no contribution at all to the matter except to amplify that and worry about interpretations of "meme".

A claim without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. It's as simple as that. You haven't provided even a smidgeon of evidence.

With respect to your comment on photons. Of course photons have different wavelengths, such an observation is trivial and of no relevance when comparing reflection and non reflected. I thought that was pretty obvious but apparently not.

If one takes the case of a specific proton reflected and another that is not reflected and both of the same color then they have the same wavelength. Both photons are the same - so "a photon is a photon".

You're the one bringing the physical properties of light into the discussion. The fact that you complain that light is technically all photons is utterly irrelevant to the fact that reflected vs emitted light are indeed different for the viewing experience as anyone can plainly see with their own two eyes. Until you provide evidence to the contrary, there's no reason to believe anyone claimed anything more than that.

Of course you may be meaning that a reflected photon perceived as a specific red, say, has a different wavelength than one of the same specific red if it has not been reflected, but I hope you are not . If you don't mean that then your mention of wavelength is irrelevant and just another meme thrown into the pot misleading others.

Sheesh, did you even read the parts of my post that you omitted in your quote? Here, I'll repeat exactly how I claimed emitted and reflective light to be different in practice, as opposed to some weird irrelevant "technically right" sense that, barring evidence to the contrary, I'm rather inclined to assume originated with you given how wildly you extrapolated from my own post:

1. At night, it won't be too bright because there's no minimum brightness inherent in what you're looking at. This is presumably your "meme" about having a light shining in your eyes. If you have a device right in front of you that can't dim the brightness below "it can pretty much light the room at night," then that simple observation is not a meme, let alone parroting a meme. Moreover, I posit that most of us probably have plenty of such devices around the house.
   
   It could be a faulty generalization depending on how it's phrased. Whether it's true for most LCD displays in regular consumer devices is a different question than whether it's inherent in the technology.
2. During the day, there won't be delays or mismatches because the light sensor is shaded. This can be particularly relevant if you're in a moving vehicle, though I would suggest disabling auto-brightness and keeping it too bright in the shadows in that case.

Setting aside that bizarre extrapolation, it should be self-evident that even if I did say something like that it would not be a meme. It would be one person saying something crazy.