Right on both counts! :-)
I'm not propounding anything dramatic here. I was just trying to get someone more knowledgeable than me in the theory to confirm that my "guess", as you put it, is not theoretically possible. As well as that it doesn't occur in practice. You've confirmed the latter...
In fact I think that answers the practical part of my question, i.e. that what I described never actually happens in practice.
So what is the basis of the "explicit assumption" you refer to? Is it simply that the phenomenon has never been observed? Or does the QM formalism require this to be...
As far as "all the current experimental detections of that single-photon that we already possess", I don't know - thus the question!
It just occurred to me that there is no reason in principle why a single photon of energy x shouldn't cause two simultaneous, separated events, each requiring an...
The situation I am considering is that of a single photon directed at a target (say a photographic plate). My understanding is that the wave function for this system (determined by the whole context of the experiment: photon properties, nature of the target, boundary conditions etc.) gives a...