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    What happens to photons that don't get absorbed by a chromophore in the eye?

    I was explaining the physics of colors to someone in another forum, but I came to a point where I wasn't sure what happened next, what happens when a photon hits a chromophore in the eye and isn't the right energy to be absorbed by it. So, suppose a "green" photon hits a chromophore that...
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    Its elements can separately absorb the electric and magnetic components ?

    I read about a metamaterial today that can separately absorb the electric and magnetic components of an electromagnetic wave, A team of scientists from Boston College and Duke Univ. ... used computer simulations based on prior research findings in the field to design resonators able to couple...
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