Recent content by Quick Karl

Chopin, Thank you. At least I have a path to follow now...

Excuse me, gentlemen, I should have known better than to ask a question on an internet forum -- it seems always to bring out the best in people... Nevertheless, the question still remains unanswered, unless you consider quips, sound bites, and insults, to be answers. Vanadium50, if I...

So, a photon is not a particle then... I am seeking something more than the typical classroom answer. Back to the original question -- if photons were trapped inside the theoretical perfect mirrored box, it would be light in there forever, presuming we shot visible photons in...

By simply seeing a photon (detecting if your eyeball is a photon detector in the visible range), you destroy it?

If you had a perfectly sealed box that did not absorb energy, and was a perfect mirror on the inside, and you fired a stream of photons through a photon sized hole in the side of the box such that they would not reflect (bounce) back out through the hole, and you placed a photon detector inside...