On Thursday, August 31, 2023 at 5:08:32 AM UTC-4, Arindam Banerjee wrote:There are no such things as photons as apart from being a brief pulse of electromagnetic radiation.
On Thursday, 31 August 2023 at 13:32:17 UTC+10, Sylvia Else wrote:
On 03-Aug-23 10:48 pm, Alan Folmsbee wrote:
On Thursday, August 3, 2023 at 12:09:14 AM UTC-4, Arindam Banerjee wrote:So how does an stellar interferometer work with photons?
A photon is a brief pulse of electromagnetic radiation, of high
frequency, seen as an electromagnetic phenomenon and NOT a burst of >> strange energy with peculiar schizophrenic properties - particle
now, wave when required.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson_stellar_interferometer
It's a very good problem to study the wavelength and propose a geometry.Sylvia.Could not find the word photon in your link, nor a sight of it in the links on stellar interferometry.
No interferometry is possible without the wave nature of light.
The accounting of photons is not necessarily well understood.
For instance no claim of conservation of photons existsWave motion gets arrested or gets merged with other waves in far outer space to form the background noise.
As well, if we take the particle view of the photon then it suffers some peculiar properties when we take its reference frame seriously.Because the particle theory is totally wrong, so, naturally.
A photon will age exactly 0 seconds from its emission at A to its absorption at B; no matter how far apart A and B are.elsewhere hopefully soon.
Meanwhile the distance that it traveled is likewise short-circuited. This zero dimensional nature of the photon goes undiscussed. That it has ray properties is a geometrical concept. There is a confluence with polysign numbers here that I'd get into
To ask whether this experiment is actually possible seems to be already swept under the rug, so to speak. In some regards we can place doubt on the possibility of even providing the experimental control of an atom of hydrogen, say, at position A, beingenergized and yielding a photon of a particular wavelength which then travels to another atom B some distance from A in some sort of apparatus. I would think that the probability of this experiment succeeding is too slight.
It's a neat place to keep an open mind.
As the electron became recognized as having an inherent magnetic moment, Maxwell's equations suffered a blow, though nobody seems to care.
Raw charge is a misnomer. In some ways this is the ultimate Maxwellian realization.
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