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Are there inherent limits to Interferometer size?
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[QUOTE="sophiecentaur, post: 6813915, member: 199289"] Yet again, there's a notion that using the word "photon" automatically raises the Physics to another level of sophistication very often it doesn't. This particular topic is based on waves. Photons are nowhere in particular and have' no time' in particular so would it be easy to base interference using them? In a situation like interferometry, no doubt there is a calculation, involving photons, that will explain how interferometry works. But after messing about with wave functions etc etc, the exact same equations will fall out and predict the exact same thing about the formation of an image. Photons come into their own in many other situations - the photoelectric effects best described using them. It's horses for courses. [/QUOTE]
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