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- From: dwr2560@zeus.tamu.edu (RING, DAVID WAYNE)
- Subject: Re: Defining Photons
- Message-ID: <27JUL199219012221@zeus.tamu.edu>
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- References: <3942@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us> <24910@dog.ee.lbl.gov> <9976@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> <26JUL199218561022@zeus.tamu.edu> <24926@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
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- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 00:01:00 GMT
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- In article <24926@dog.ee.lbl.gov>, sichase@csa3.lbl.gov writes...
- >What is classical in a cloud chamber (in which by the way, no one has ever
- >seen a W!) is not the charged particle but the droplets which condense on the
- >ionized nucleation sites. The W itself is behaving quite nonclassically.
-
- ? It follows a definite path, even if it was prepared as a plane wave. It
- will not interfere with other paths. What does the poor guy have to do to
- prove he's classical?
-
- Matt's post convinced me about the neutrino's though. You can't build
- a classical field out of fermions.
-
- So now I think the thing which makes the photon classically 'different' from
- other particles is that it's a neutral boson. Like helium. Hmmm...
-
- Dave Ring
- dwr2560@zeus.tamu.edu
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