Re: Odd behavior of a Single Photon

FrediFizzx,

> http://www.vacuum-physics.com/QVC/quantum_vacuum_charge.pdf

Thanks for link, I just read it. Half way through they are describing
some form of medium for the quantum vacuum called the spin matrix which
allows photons to traverse. They say, "there are still problems with
having the vacuum in our space be some kind of medium. We suspect that
there is an inner space that this spin matrix lives in [5, 14]."


> I doubt very much that photons bounce off anything at all.
> Absorbed and a new photon is emitted.

I totally agree!


About the photon spreading ... In QED they talk about the probability
wave pattern. I am trying to find for certain by means of an
experiment if the single photon spreads out in space. What do I mean
by spread out in space? Imagine a balloon collapsing under water in
the ocean or an explosion. This causes waves in the 3D space. In
radio waves, we can measure the waves by electromagnetic forces. In
electronics they call this induced voltage. Anyhow, the radio wave
also spreads out in space. The beamwidth depends on the antenna shape.
So radio waves also spread out in space. So take a simple radio
station dipole tower. I walk around the tower, 360 degrees, and pick
up the radio waves with my radio. Now QM claims that even radio waves
consist of many photons. What if the radio stations signal was so weak
that only one photon per second was emitted? Are you saying that each
photon would be emitted from the tower like bullets in a random
direction each time? So a photon could be emitted at 10 degrees, then
the next at possibly 140 degrees, then 87 degrees, etc. Am I
describing this correctly? So then me and my hand radio would not
always be in the path of the photon, correct?



Sam Wormley,

> Depends on the energy of the x-ray photon, type of metal and
thickness.
> I'll accept that the combination of variables results in almost 100%
absorption.

Doesn't that suggest that the x-ray photon is wider and/or taller than
the grid spacing? I mean, if the grid spacing / air-space is say 10mm,
and the wire diameter was 1mm and if the x-ray photon is much smaller,
then wouldn't the x-ray fly right through the grid without hitting the
wire most of the time? I don't know ... this is one of my major
questions. Presently I agree with you, that in such a test the x-ray
would hit the wire grid most of the time. If the width and height of a
single x-ray photon remained at its length, the wavelength, then the
x-ray photon would miss the wire grid almost every time. I think
professor Richard A. Muller at Berkeley made it clear to me that a
single photon spreads out as it traverses. I don't think the single
photon's width is the same as a wavelength. I would like to do this
test one day but surely someone has already performed this test. What
I am suggesting is not the interference experiments.

Here is another example ->
Take a sensitive photon detector. Place a photon emitter roughly 1
meter away from the photon detector. Emit a photon. Record if the
detector saw the photon. Repeat the test several times. Assuming our
detector is fully capable of detecting the photon nearly 100% of the
time, then how often will the detector see the photon?

Perhaps this is what I am being told here. The photon has a
probability wave pattern. In other words, until the photon is
detected, it is assumed to be in all possible locations within a
distance region relative to the time it left. Therefore, the photon
would hit the wire regardless of the spacing and wire diameter. Then,
once the photon hit and was absorbed by the wire, then the entire wave
would collapse, and therefore only one part of the wire grid dish would
get hit by the x-ray photon.

Paul

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