Recent content by deansatch

is that not like saying "just accept that things just are the way they are and don't question it"?

but is it not about finding out what is going on in those unknown places?

so is it right to say that a photon doesn't actually exist and what we are measuring and calling a photon is merely the affect/result of an action. So a dot appearing and being recorded when 'firing a photon' is not where a photon has hit as it doesn't actually exist? The dot is just what...

thanks for all the answers (and the little debates in between). I'm still trying to get my head round the movement (and existence) of photons. ie. Why do they move...if nothing propels them...why are they moving? Are they attracted towards something? I can't just accept that they move constantly...

Thanks Bill. I'm reading that paper now but must admit it is a struggle when I have to google half the words :)

Would anyone be able to clarify a few things about the experiment for me? The firing of photons toward the 2 slits...how accurate is this? i.e. aim? For a single slit I imagine firing them straight through as though there were no obstruction at all. Then for the double slit, do they fire at the...

Thanks...I'm not quite advanced enough to follow the maths though, but take your word for it about the low intensity light which answers my question. Would it be unreasonable to assume that rather than photons being waves that can turn into particles or vice versa, that they really are just...

I've been reading up a lot on the double slit experiment recently (and I'm no physicist at all). Although I haven't really seen the experiment done with my own eyes, from the demonstrations on youtube it seems as though the pattern when shining a laser through the slits is constant and solid...