Re: What is a photon?

On Feb 13, 9:36 pm, Sam Wormley <sworml...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Tom Potterwrote:

physical entity
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A massive thing [photon] that can be tracked in time and space.

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Tom Potter

Hey potter--how does one track a photon without destroying it?

Hey Wormley--Where does the photons go
after you "destroy" them?

Face the facts, photons don't exist.

The ONLY thing that exists
and can be measured
between a cause and an effect
is an interaction time.

The situation is this:

1. One monitors events at various points.
2. One point is considered to be the effect point.
3. An assumed cause point is selected,
and a cross-correlation is made
between sets of events occurring at the two points.
4. The cross-correlation yields two numbers,
the time interval between the two points,
and the amount of correlation between the sets of events.
6. As the cause event for an effect event
for some time interval could be anywhere
on time interval spheres about the selected effect point
the truest model of what is happening at some point is
a mapping of the cross-correlations at all points
about the effect point.
7. Photons don't enter into the picture.
All that exists are correlations between some effect point
and all possible cause points,
and the time intervals associated with the correlations.

Here is a hint for Sammy.
The events at some selected effect point
that doesn't correlated with active cause points
are called residuals, noise, artifact, etc.
and good scientists DON'T ignore them.

In fact, discovery is the process of making
use of residuals, noise, artifact, etc.

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