Re: Photons shapeshifting to wave prior to measurement
- From: RP <no_mail_no_spam@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 18:17:55 -0600
bz wrote:
RP <no_mail_no_spam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in news:3aup5fF6dk5o9U1 @individual.net:
Sam Wormly posted an article recently about single photons being detected for the first time, so I take this as evidence that the authors of that paper were previously of the opinion that it had never been done, eh? I didn't read the paper, but I have no doubt that they're fooling themselves if they believe it.
there have been MANY single photon experiments. I don't know what frequency/wavelength Sam's post might addressed, but as for visible light, it was done long ago.
In fact, one can do the double slit experiment under single photon conditions and interference patterns are still observed[once enough single photons have been collected]
http://www.teachspin.com/products/two_slit/experiments.html and an interesting, somewhat related site. http://web.phys.ksu.edu/vqmorig/tutorials/online/wave_part/
Quote:
"A Dramatic Demonstration of the "Essential Quantum Paradox"
The "essential quantum paradox" can be shown dramatically by a simple experiment. The detector slit is positioned, in turn, at the three empirically determined positions of the -1 minimum, the central maximum, and the +1 minimum of the interference pattern, marked in Figure 4 as P-1, P0, and P+1. Photon count rates are measured for the slit-blocker set to permit light to pass through only one slit, through both slits, or through only the other slit.
At the central maximum, going from one to two sits quadruples not doubles, the count rate. And, contrary to the logic of classical particles, at either minimum, opening a second slit markedly reduces the count rate."
If this doesn't convince you that only transitions in the detector are being counted, then I don't know what will.
There is indeed a single wave emitted from an atomic transition event, but this waves isn't a photons, it is a wave. Granularity of radiation isn't evidence of photons, it's evidence of discrete waves. One wave can induce more than one transition, and 100 waves can induce one transition. It just depends on the pumped state of the detector and upon the beam intensity.
Richard Perry
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