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[โ€“] rockerface@lemmy.cafe 10 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

In fact, yes. Photons don't have a charge, so anti-photons would illuminate the Earth all the same. The issue, as the video points out, will come from too much energy hitting the Earth's surface, not too little.

[โ€“] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 31 minutes ago

in fact so far as i can tell, there wouldn't be anti-photons, they'd just be normal photons