>>11843608>Except that photons do exist they just aren't localizedSmart guy detected +1
>>11843625You are confused between "photons" and "mathematical objects used to describe photons."
>>11843631They do this because of some historical Geiger counter-like experiment. They were doing the photoelectric effect in some device and monitoring it with something like a Geiger counter which makes a noise when a photoelectric particle goes into it. When they decreased the intensity of the incident particle flux upon the metallic source of photoelectrons, they expected to hear quieter clicks on the Geiger counter. What they really heard was fewer clicks at the same loudness as before. The answer to your question is that localization is better for describing why the clicks get less frequent instead of getting quieter by clicking at the same frequency. (I greatly simplified the experiment I was talking about. I may have mixed up the procedure a bit.)
>>11843668A wavepacket is a superposition of frequency modes. One frequency can't support more than one mode. In practice, however, the Heisenberg uncertainty of the photon's frequency is sufficient for constructing a wave packet.
