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- Subject: Re: How do we know individual photons exist?
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- Date: 15 Sep 92 21:04:21 GMT
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- In article <10740@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr) writes:
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- >Experiments have been done with very low intensities so that there is
- >at most one photon in the apparatus at a time. The actual interference
- >pattern requires the accumulation of many events, thus representing
- >an ensemble of incident photons, but the process does occur for one
- >photon at a time.
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- I think of it as "photon trail dust".
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