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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Re: What Really is a photon?
« on: 10/08/2006 08:18:33 »quote:
Originally posted by Soul Surfer
... This can be proved by setting up a classic two slit intereference pattern which causes the light to form interference fringes where parts are brighter than the other. These intereference fringes can be shown to exist even if ONLY ONE photon is inside the apparatus at any one time so there is no doubt that both the particle and the wave actually travel between the source and the detector (revelator).
We have an electromagnetic wave that hits the shield with two (or more) slits, then it hits the revelating shield. Without the concept of a flying photon, I can easily imagine a low intensity wave that hits this last shield, making it "clicks" only in some precise point of it and only once every minute: the low intensity wave means low probability of interaction. The fact that THE INTERACTION is particle-like, doesn't mean that a particle travels from source to revelator.