POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Quotable : Re: Quotable Server Time
8 Sep 2024 05:18:09 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Quotable  
From: Warp
Date: 2 Jun 2008 20:02:56
Message: <48448a30@news.povray.org>
Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> > and everything is an integer multiple of that amount. You just can't
> > have eg. half of the electric charge of an electron, for example.

> Uh, yeah, you can, but that's because they found smaller things like 
> quarks.

  Except that the electron is an elementary particle, with no known
subdivision into smaller components. And, as far as I know, the charge
of an electron is the smallest known charge.

> >   These "quants" behave oddly. Sometimes they behave like particles,
> > sometimes they behave like waves, and sometimes they behave like both
> > at the same time. Different measurements of the exact same quant can
> > show wildly different behavior in this respect. (One experiment will
> > clearly show that light behaves like a wave and not like a stream of
> > particles, while another experiment will show the exact opposite.)

> You are out of date by several decades, I believe.

  You are saying that all experiments which show light as behaving like
a wave and the experiments showing it behaving like a stream of particles
are wrong?

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                                                          - Warp


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