I am also trying to really understand these basic properties of light. This question was one I was also thinking about. If light passes through glass, is it being emitted as photons on the oppisite side by the atoms? Or is it more like a gamma ray passing through with very low chance of interaction?
I am a undergrad student working on physics degree. I am currently taking an optics class and am trying to get in a better understanding of light. So the wavelength of the electric field oscillations (or mag. field) is the wavelength of the lifgt ie 640nm for red light. This may seam very basic...
Have any of you read this:
http://philosophyfaculty.ucsd.edu/faculty/wuthrich/philphys/EllermanDavid2012Man_QuantumEraser2.pdf
It is basially saying the methods for detecting is the cause of the collapse of the wave function. I have also read about the experiment by Aephraim Steinberg of...