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    Is there a name for the "phenomenon" of seeing fireworks when you press your eyes closed and push in with your fingers?

    Question #126601. Asked by salami_swami. (Aug 16 12 8:46 PM)


    timence

    		Not sure that there is an agreed name for this (different sources call them different things: e.g. photons, kaleidescopes, light refraction), but I found a very interesting theory on how and why it happens.

    http://www.dedoimedo.com/physics/eye-images.html




    Aug 16 12, 11:24 PM

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