Re: How Can Light NOT be Ballistic?


"Jerry" <Cephalobus_alienus@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| Henri Wilson wrote:
| > On 23 Apr 2006 22:44:28 -0700, "Jerry" <Cephalobus_alienus@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
| >
| > >Henri Wilson wrote:
| > >> A remote atom in space emits a package of energy, as one of
| > >> its electrons moves to a different energy level. The package
| > >> moves away from the atom in a particular direction and continues
| > >> on through space as ONE single unit.
| > >
| > >Right away, you commit a fundamental error. Emission of a photon
| > >"here" and detection "there" does not imply the continuous
| > >existence of the photon as a discrete entity between "here" and
| > >"there". There is no "package" that moves away from the atom
| > >"in a particular direction and continues on through space as ONE
| > >single unit."
| >
| > What a strange thing to say..
| >
| > Hyothetically, it is quite feasible to follow the movement of a light
| > pulse as it moves across space. Why shouldn't that apply to a
| > single photon?
| >
| > ...yes, I know, observing it would destroy it.....but identical photons
| > could be used in a series of experiments.
| >
| > There is no evidence that a photon disappears and miraculoulsly
| > turns up somewhere else. All evidence suggests it remains perfectly
| > intact and moves at c wrt its source.
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| Explain self-interference of SINGLE photons in the double-slit
| experiment.


Sure.
http://www.androcles01.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/PHOTONSLICER.PNG
Androcles.


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| Jerry
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