Re: Quantum Paradox of a Self-Interference of a Photon in VLBI

From: Old Man (nomail_at_nomail.net)
Date: 09/27/04 

Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 22:12:55 -0500

"vonroach" <hadrainc@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 17:45:02 -0500, "Old Man" <nomail@nomail.net>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >"vonroach" <hadrainc@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> >news:enlbl0p5m08va8iu3q4l4560c36u210t0g@4ax.com...
> >> On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 00:09:54 -0500, "Old Man" <nomail@nomail.net>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> >Why not ? Actually, a bean of one photon at a time
> >> >is just fine.
> >>
> >> Why call it a bean (? presume you intended beam), just call it a
> >> photon. I'm still interested in the filter that allows only one photon
> >> to pass, for you to `measure' and chatter on about, old man.
> >
> >Filter ? Just turn down the lamp's intensity. vonroach will
> >see that, for the same number of single photon detentions,
> >the interference pattern is unchanged. That's excellent
> >empirical evidence against the silly notion that an interference
> >pattern is due to interference between photons. vonroach
> >is falsified by that experiment.
> >
> >pOld Man]
> >
> `Interference pattern is due to interference between photons'?
> Photons? A single photon - 1 lone quanta of light or other or other
> EM radiation was mentioned, not `photons'. Which actually I accept as
> excellent empirical evidence of someone's insanity . I have no basis
> for concluding that the interference pattern doesn't change as the
> `intensity' or number of photons is reduced to zero. I've never seen
> empirical evidence of that, it is not intuitive, and any pragmatic
> consequence is also obscure. You seem to attach great significance to
> some idle abstraction existing only in the mind.

    .... snip spew of cracked pottery ...

Yes, Old Man attaches great significance to logically
self-consistent abstractions that, without exception, are
quantitatively sufficient to empirical observation.

vonroach hasn't presented anything of equal significance.
vonroach displays delusions of competence. vonroach's
ignorance blinds him to overwhelming empirical evidence.
vonroach inhales cracked pottery in his abstract empirical
vacuum.

[Old Man]

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