On Monday, September 4, 2023 at 12:27:47 PM UTC-7, Ross Finlayson wrote:
On Monday, September 4, 2023 at 12:23:31 PM UTC-7, Ross Finlayson wrote:
On Monday, September 4, 2023 at 1:06:00 AM UTC-7, J. J. Lodder wrote:
mitchr...@gmail.com <mitchr...@gmail.com> wrote:
if light is a standing wave?
A photon being a quantum of light
does not depend on the light being a standing
or a travelling wave.
In fact most textbooks start with photons as quanta
of the normal modes of light in a box,
Jan
Here it starts with additive and subtractive color.
Then there's often a usual course in perspective drawing, and for example drawing marks
of brightness and shadow.
Yeah, by the time students and researchers arrive at the "wavepacket formalism",
in the "photon sector", it's figured they have a wide and broad knowledge and experience
in what contributes to appreciation of the geometrical, and, the optical, qualities of
light, and, about images, focuses, reflections, and shade.
One hopes it's a wide and broad knowledge and experience,
not a fat and soft the gut, the butt, the heart, and the head.
Now, if you're a few lines of code, with a few segments of memory, with a few instructions
as so follow, or the guts of an algorithm of a digital calculator, then there's much to be said
for the limited instruction set which arrives at the purpose and function of a digital calculator.
Is it really so much more to arrive at that of an analytical framework of knowledge and experience
overall? It's quite some more, but, not necessarily so much more.
One of my favorite books of Carl Boyer even more than "the conceptual development of
the calculus" a history and treatise on the infinitesimal analysis also known as real analysis,
is his history of the science of "the rainbow". Now, this book about rainbows isn't about
the gays, or Irish leprechauns, or Norse bridge, it's about the phenomenon in optics and state
of the natural result of "events" which arrive at the study and research of the nature of the
principles and laws that in the emergent result in a study and a research into the theory and
science, of the rainbow, or arc en ciel.
Then, getting into the theory of light, and while the thread stub says photons there's that
photons are just a quantum object with frequency and wavelength in part of a context of
a theory of the properties of the qualia of natural phenomenon toward a quantitative science
of same, there's an overall _context_ what's so relevant to any given laden or unladen photon.
(What results the irradiative generally and imaging towrad information in coherence.)
So, a textbook of a calculator's innards yes might be just a few terms and a few rules and
summary inputs and outputs. But, it doesn't "think" that.
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