[Just thinking (OP)]

If there is no way, even in principle, to tell the difference between two things then are they actually different?

If one photon is replaced with another at the speed of light it will be very difficult to tell but yet they are different.

[trevorjohnson32]

A shaded a day

One day
Bored chemist say
ADULTS ARE TALKING
ABOUT PHOTON RAYS!
but the waves
came in
and bored chemist
starts to spin
and says
if only water waves
were particle too
then I could BS
may way through
these waves
these waves
good day!

[Kryptid]

A shaded a day

One day
Bored chemist say
ADULTS ARE TALKING
ABOUT PHOTON RAYS!
but the waves
came in
and bored chemist
starts to spin
and says
if only water waves
were particle too
then I could BS
may way through
these waves
these waves
good day!

I warned you against spamming like this. For that reason, expect to be given a "vacation".

[Just thinking (OP)]

It's pretty much a rhetorical question.
I don't think there is a way in which we could distinguish the way that modern physics treats the reflection of light from the idea of the photons conveying their  energy to the electrons and then the energy being re-emitted.

It's pretty much a rhetorical question.
I don't think there is a way in which we could distinguish the way that modern physics treats the reflection of light from the idea of the photons conveying their  energy to the electrons and then the energy being re-emitted.

I think I can see how I may be wrong if a beam of light hits a mirror and the mirror is at an angle to the beam how could a new photon continue on the diverted angle not only would a new photon be created but it would have to stay on the same course this seems contradictive to the nature of directed light.