Where do light particles go? If a person is in a dark room, and they open a curtain, light illuminates the room from outside. But then, when the curtain is closed, the room is dark again, and the light is no longer there. Where did it go?
I probably have a flawed understanding of how light particles work.
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When a photon runs into an object, it interacts with the atoms on its outside and is absorbed or reflected. You can see the reflected photons, if they go into your eye. The absorbed ones are gone, heating the object.
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