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5 Sep 2024 03:23:38 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Theoretical physics and QED  
From: gregjohn
Date: 27 Sep 2009 08:40:00
Message: <web.4abf5c8ec81877d134d207310@news.povray.org>
Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> An excellent summary of why photons are *not* waves and do *not* "interfere"
> with themselves or with each other in the double-slit experiment.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7OEzyEfzgg
>
> --
>    Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
>    I ordered stamps from Zazzle that read "Place Stamp Here".


I was always bothered by explanations of diffraction (and I sat through many,
many of them in college) which involved a diagram showing two ADJACENT photons
interfering with each other.


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