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i don't know how u would demonstrate it using water waves or sound waves because u can't columnate them whereas light beams are columnated. Could it be that this time energy is not conserved for that brief moment. This shouldn't be that unbelivable since there are other times when energy is...

Davec i agree with you but do you have any idea how i might set it up because what i need are beams of light.

I moved this from a different thread as i thought it would be more appropriate here. If two photons were to arrive at a single spot by accident such that they were half a lambda out of phase they would destructively interfere. Where would the energy go?

ok i don't mean to be a thorn in ur side but its just bothering me. It just doesn't seem to be much of an explanation to say the chances of it happening are so low that we won't have to worry about it. What if it does happen what if two photons arrive in the same spot by accident being out of...

Well but i thought that all things could act as waves even photons as said by debroghlie (not sure that's how you spell his name). He was the guy who said that all things can exhibit wave like properties. So that means that a single photon can ineterfere.

I am not entirely sure what you mean. Are you saying that unless we can find a laser with a beam whose thickness is the size of one photon the light would always spread giving you fringes of dark and bright spots? And that if we did have a laser with thickness of one photon we would never be...

any comments will be appreciated...

Let us arrange a coherent monochromatic light beam, e.g. a laser beam, to be split and directed along two paths. With repect to the light's wavelength, the paths are suitably arranged such that a half-cycle net time delay exists between them. These beams are then recombined downstream, so...