Re: Photon size.

Posted by davidmac on September 27, 2003 at 09:08:46:

In Reply to: Re: Photon size. posted by Haelfix on September 26, 2003 at 16:04:18:

"Light isn't a particle, its a quantum field. It exists throughout space, everywhere. In fact, its not just one particle that exists everywhere, its the sum total of every field in the universe that are all interacting with each other that are all interacting with one another in some mathematical space."

This is the current view of the idea of the quantum and it is as absurd as absurd can be. There should be some experiment devised that proves that once a photon collapses onto an object then it cannot be anywhere but there. Light from a distant quasar cannot just go around all of the intervening material and end up here, it must have a certain size/frequency relationship. I think that this experiment would prove the point: take a photon source and put it inside a shpere. Somewhere between this source and the shpere put a smaller shpere. Now, if the entire inside surface of the larger shpere is photon detectors then will there or will there not be a shadow projected from the small sphere onto the larger sphere? Of course there will be.

Now, imagine another scenario where the the sphere is 1 light year in size and the photon source is in the center. At opposing points on the inside surface of the sphere there are two scientific outposts that have the capability of measuring or reflecting photons at a specific frequency. If the two outposts have their measurement setups calibrated so that if one measures a photon then the other doesn't then we can have a communication device that is essentially instantaneous. This is based on the idea that each photon is a sphere of ever-increasing size. The truth is that each photon is totally independent and has a size limit on its lateral motion wrt either the electric or magnetic portions of the whole. Any photon measured at one of the stations will have no part of itself anywhere near the other one. The only way FTL communications is possible with current technology and scientific understanding is if we use entangled particles.

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