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Anonymous Tue 09 Feb 17:24:03 2021 No.12686402 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>12686424 >>12686656

when two photons interfere constructively are they really just one photon?

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Anonymous Tue 09 Feb 2021 17:29:00 No.12686424 Report

Quoted By: >>12686474

>>12686402
Think of a photon as a little rotating bit of electric and magnetic field. A little vortex that corkscrews along.

Two waves can pass through each other. And that wave height can be taller or deeper or even for a moment canceled out.

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Anonymous Tue 09 Feb 2021 17:40:56 No.12686474 Report

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>>12686424
if they constructively interfere at one location and become 1 photon and destructively interfere at another location and become 0 photons and overlap without interfering at all at a third location is there a global photon counting function? Can it have non-integer values?

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Anonymous Tue 09 Feb 2021 18:27:54 No.12686656 Report

Quoted By: >>12686670

>>12686402
imagine driving through one of these and a whale comes and hits it.

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Anonymous Tue 09 Feb 2021 18:31:45 No.12686670 Report

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imagine driving through one of these and an out of control tanker crashes into it

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