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But the controversy of wave VS particle would seem to continue..

On a sunny day (Sat, 18 Aug 2012 19:25:09 -0700) it happened Robert Baer wrote in :

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That is why I wrote it that way, in the end the question always is 'what waves'. But from the quantum club perspective, where it is usually parroted that a photon can be in an infinite number of superimposed states, if you look at it as a waveform, and remember this is all happening in 3D space, like a stone shaking in the water sends pressure waves in EVERY direction, then you can look at the photon as a quadrature modulated wave for at least some of the observers, and thus QAM modulation, and thus it obeys Shannon's limit where signal to noise limits the information content (or number of superimposed states to stay with that club), and we are back to normal life.

Look it is Sunday morning, I have to reply to a zillion Usenet posts with very different subjects, so this may have been kept a bit short.

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What is waving????? Hard to come up with an answer. We know motion through a medium creates waves. That takes in the motion of spinning. My "Spin is in theory" covers this. It shows how electrons create a waving field. Reality is our thinking of a rock drpped into a pond can relate to quantum waves fits. It does not. TreBert

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I _DO_ like your description and approach. Ages ago, i heard of an experiment (do not know if it was actually done and recorded AND repeated) where a beam of light goes thru two holes in a card, producing an interference pattern (which "proves" wave description) on a surface. BUT that same surface is photosensitive and its reaction is uniform and quantized, "proving" the particle description. Possible other terms to use: Waveacle? Absent minded? Pesky?

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Yes, i know; the rock drops to the bottom and gets muddy. The electron drops to a lower energy state and does NOT get muddy.

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Photons go in pairs with a wave between them. When they move further apart the wave is weaker.Very far apart they are radio. Very close they are gamma. Short waves vibrate fast Long waves vibrate slow. When in gamma state photons can kick free electrons around. In radio state no matter how intense the source its impossible. Get the picture TreBert

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It could also be argued that a single photon is a zero-rise-and-fall- time frequency-domain pulse, and we know what the spectrum of such a pulse looks like, don't we?

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Nope, not in 1800. Fringes observed by naked eye.

Got a laser pointer?

I think the "debate" is more about how we insist on viewing reality than about what reality actually does.

Notice the double-slit experiment has been done with "actual" particles from electrons to entire C-60 molecules, demonstrating the wave nature of "solid matter".

Mark L. Fergerson

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Yup. The math says what it says, and at ordinary energies it preducts the experimental results with really astonishing accuracy. (I'd point out that the astonishing comprehensibility of nature in situations very far from common observation or any sort of evolutionary bias is an excellent argument for our being made in God's image. (Kepler said that the most wonderful thing about his work on planetary orbits was "thinking God's thoughts after Him.") However, that would just make trouble, so I won't.)

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

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So there you are; "proof" of particle nature of photons (err..electrons) and interference giving "proof" of wave nature. Give each proof a sword and let them DUEL it out..

Maxwell and Heisenberg are not allowed to watch.

Photons go in PAIRS with waves between them? WOW! That is PURE GENIUS!

I'm going to have to tell mpc755 that someone ELSE can now finally explain the two slit diffraction problem! Each photon of the PAIR goes each through it's OWN slit!

Of course now there is the problem of the 3 slit diffraction... Oh well, nobody looks at that anyway! Get the picture?

Right-handed and left-handed so they know in advance which way to go.

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Think a wave like a worm cut it in half and its still wiggling(waving) Drop a rock in a pond and how many waves does it create? original wave does not move to shore. Why are the waves always round even if you dropped a square block in? Are the waves in reality moving? If water could be compressed what then? When wave touches the pond bottom then what takes place? What effect does surface tension have on these waves? Why is it a cork does not follow these waaves to shore,but stays put and only goes up and down? What did this rock hitting the water actual do? How does oil on water keep waves down? When water gets very cold and before freezing why does is shrink? What gives water the ability to climb uphill?How is it water can absorb so much heat and yet its own temperature does not go up that much? Reality is if ice did not float there would be no high life forms on Earth. ThebERT

You can relate two photons as seen as one like looking at binary stars at a great distance. Get the picture yet? TreBert

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Wouldn't that be Schrodinger instead of Maxwell?

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