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- From: bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
- Subject: Re: How do we know individual photons exist?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.185056.17948@ichips.intel.com>
- Sender: news@ichips.intel.com (News Account)
- Organization: Intel Corp., Chandler, Arizona
- References: <1992Sep15.180630.913@prim>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 18:50:56 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep15.180630.913@prim> prim!dave@germany.eu.net (Dave Griffiths) writes:
- >When an electron has collected
- >1000 sub-photons, it's state changes.
-
- When an electron collects even one "sub-photon," its state changes;
- perhaps not in the same way as when it collects a "whole" photon,
- but it's certainly not the same as before.
-
- --Blair
- "It's sort of like potato chips..."
-