Yeah, he loved it, also ketamine, but was too scared to do much of either in case it dulled his brain in any way. So he bought an isolation tank and spent a year learning to do in 8 hours what you normally do in 30 secs with drugs.
He's not really talking about photons. Just the EM spectrum and wave theory. Related, but different--photons have even more mind-bending properties that he'd have to invoke yet more stuff to get at.
When you think of "amazing scientist" you always imagine a British or German accent.. it's fun hearing his commoner New York drawl.. da choppiness of da waves in da wahtah.
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