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Invisible wrote:
> I can only presume this must be due to light pollution.
You need to go out someplace like 50 miles from the nearest street light.
It's really rather overwhelming.
> Well, photons are quantum, right?
I'm not sure you'd see a point source. You need enough surface that the
likelihood of multiple photons reaching your eye in a short interval is
positive.
> (Interestingly, I'm told it *is* possible to make a light source that
> emits individual photons, one at a time, on que. And that when you do
> this, things like the double-slit experiment still show multiple waves
> interferring and reinforcing - despite this being obviously
> impossible... Wave-particle duality is weird!)
It's only impossible if you think the interference is caused by waves, which
it isn't.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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much longer being almost empty than almost full.
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