It does: Light does not follow the path of minimal distance between two points, but the path of minimal time. This is called Fermat’s principle.
Because water has a higher refraction index than air, light is slower in it and therefore takes a longer time to travel through it. Thus, it takes less time to take a longer path that spends more time in the air.
Fun fact: The underlying law of this principle is the principle of least action. This is the most basic law of nature we know of and can be used to derive all of physics.
The probably of the path it takes is the sum of all possible paths. Richard Feynman uses this exact swimmer in the water example during ok if his lectures.
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I feel it’s a missed opportunity to exclude the ice cream sales and drowning deaths correlation, but that’s just me. I like the maximal time route goes up, though.
I think the both the current ongoing books, Star Trek and Star Trek: Defiant, are a lot of fun, in the way that grabbing up a handful of action figures and smashing them together is a lot of fun. They’re ultimately silly fan service in a way that’s completely uncynical.
On the subject of action figures, if you want to talk about completed series, I think Star Trek vs. Transformers was actually really good. I especially like that they leaned into the Saturday morning cartoon aspect by having the Enterprise crew from STA with Arex and M’Ress being part of the cast. Unfortunately, IDW no longer has the Transformers license, so finding a digital copy could be a pain.
I would be remiss if I didn’t shout out the Star Trek: Lower Decks mini-series that came out a few months back. Everything you [I] love about LDecks, but in comics form. It was written by Ryan North, the author of Dinosaur Comics, and The Unbeatable Squirrel-Girl. He also said I was funny one time, and now nobody can tell me a damn thing.
Circling back to stories that are just dumping all the action figures out on the floor, my highest recommendation goes to Star Trek: The Q Conflict, in which Q and some other similarly powerful beings, gather up the crews of the Enterprise, Enterprise D, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager to act as their proxies in a cosmic dick measuring conflict.
I read Lower Decks this weekend and loved it! And I also read Star Trek vs Transformers and your description was highly accurate, lol. I’m starting on Defiant now.
I enjoyed this issue of Echoes more than the previous installments, but it still isn’t doing much for me. Guggenheim seems to be cramming as many character flourishes – little Kirkisms, and Spockisms, and McCoyisms – into the issues as he can, and it makes the characters read like parodies of themselves. Also, the art has not grown on me at all.
I did like the opening scene with the Federation President though.
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