The Shadow Knows

[Zinjanthropos]

Is there a French Fry truck nearby or a large body of water?
Large body of water - the English Channel - we use it to transfer our waste plastic into the Atlantic.

Over here our seagulls are affectionately called Shit hawks. Also any loud screeching noises are referred to two shit hawks fighting over a dead fish.

Back to topic...sort of

I've read where an individual atom can cast a shadow. If so I wonder, since there's an abundance of plastic in our oceans, whether it's actually a darker environment for sea life now than before we invented the stuff? 

Photons apparently don't cast shadows, this I've also read. If I remember correctly it's because they don't carry a charge, so I would think they're too busy being absorbed or reflected by particles that do.

[Secular Sanity]

Large body of water - the English Channel - we use it to transfer our waste plastic into the Atlantic.

Well, la-di-da!  You’re not the world's sole depositor of plastic debris, you know. Our beast rising up from the sea is known as the Great Pacific garbage patch. It’s our very own man-made island and it’s covered with names that we’ve all worshiped.  

Name dropping, my ass.  No, nowadays it’s literally on my ass…sealed, marked, and branded.  I bet you didn’t know that I have a big "MK" on my bum.  I’ve no idea why this man’s initials represent the good life but supposedly it makes me more attractive, intelligent, and likable.  Can you believe it, C2?  We’re living in an age where we can just purchase our image.  Our fantastic plastic; that’s our images that you see bobbing in the sea.  One day, I hope to have a big "LV' (louis Vuitton) on my arse, and then they’ll all know, C2, they’ll all know just how important I was when they see my big "LV" floating in the sea.

"Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!"

Sorry, got a little carried away (pre-coffee).  

[Secular Sanity]

Imagine, our universe is expanding because the 4D universe is being squashed flat. But like us, the 4D inhabitants don't notice.  erhaps the extra dimensions aren't curled up, they're just squashing one another. lol

Okay, coffee injection completed.

Not bad, Zinman. We may not notice but a four dimensional inhabitant would.  They could see every point of a solid figure.  Perhaps they’re everywhere and everywhere at once.  Maybe they’d say, "Oh, those silly 3D’s with their accelerating universe.  They don’t realize that their time is slowing down relative to the past.  Time dilation; won’t they ever learn."   

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[Zinjanthropos]

Not bad, Zinman. We may not notice but a four dimensional inhabitant would.  They could see every point of a solid figure.  Perhaps they’re everywhere and everywhere at once.  Maybe they’d say, "Oh, those silly 3D’s with their accelerating universe.  They don’t realize that their time is slowing down relative to the past.  Time dilation; won’t they ever learn."   

The Zinman is not just another pretty face   . 
Maybe there are no 4D inhabitants and if there are then there's no reason for evolution to include us in their package. We'd be like UV or a low elephant bellow to them,   off the scale. 
The more you squash something, the flatter it gets. One dimension slowly disappears while another gets more noticeable as in size perhaps. Imagine being squashed into an infinite crepe. Hope the 2D creatures of the universe aren't feeling the weight of our 3D+ domains, might cause some panic . 
Kind of like the pull of a BH..... I get the feeling things go splat and flat when  contacting those little beasties. Maybe the innermost dimension of a universal dimensionally layered  sphere is attracting the others. Redneck cosmology is fun.

[Secular Sanity]

Well, would you look at that. I’m not as weird as I thought I was.

Fast fashion: Inside the fight to end the silence on waste

[Zinjanthropos]

https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/sc...oonshadows

Cat Stevens sang he was being followed by a moon shadow. A good metaphor for depression perhaps? Anyways moon shadows are dark places.