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- From: terry@aslws01.asl.dl.nec.com (Terry Bollinger)
- Subject: Re: Wave/particle duality
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.013847.27481@asl.dl.nec.com>
- Keywords: photon,particle,dual slits,interference,quantum waves
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- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 01:38:47 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep14.201601.24668@riacs.edu>
- danforth@riacs.edu (Douglas G. Danforth) writes:
-
- > Are the photons point-like or is it our eyes that have point-like regions
- > of activation? ... Consider a gentle wave rolling up a beach on which
- > reside preset mouse traps. Some will fire (trigger) and some won't.
- > Is the wave discrete or is it the mouse traps?
-
- I like it!
-
- One, um, *slight* difference of course. Your gentle wave could have been
- a mile long and could as easily have set off a million mouse traps as one.
-
- But when that wee gentle little photon wave hits a million atomic mouse
- traps, not only is it guaranteed that only ONE mousetrap will trigger --
- it's also guaranteed that all 999,999 of the other ones will absolutely
- swear from that day onward that they never even SAW the supposed wave!
-
- Cheers,
- Terry Bollinger
- (working late again, sigh...)
-
- "Gaping in astonishment, Terry says 'You mean that Daniel E. Platt and I
- REALLY DID just say more or less the same thing??... Wowzers!!'"
-