Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> Or are you trying to apply 
>> common sense to a field which even nobel prize winners in that field agree 
>> it doesn't make common sense?
> 
>   That is contradictory with:
> 
>> I said you know it's not an interference pattern 
>> because it happens with only one photon at a time.

I don't see that as contradictory, unless you mean that if it doesn't make 
common sense, you can't talk about it with common words at all. I'm down 
with that. The math doesn't work out the same either.  :-)

But seriously, for there to be an interference pattern, something has to 
interfere with something else, right?  As soon as you interfere with the 
photon, the pattern goes away.  Indeed, the pattern is *only* there exactly 
to the extent that there is *no* interference.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Human nature dictates that toothpaste tubes spend
   much longer being almost empty than almost full.

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