Salmon Egg wrote:
On 1/29/06 4:49 AM, in article
, "jayz"
wrote:

Hi,

In a single airy disc, how many photons approximately could it be
composed of??

In a parallel light rays coming from distance point to the objective
lens, how many photon(s) are there and what's the distribution??

Basically. What is the relationship between photons and light rays
in telescope optics??

Thanks.

jayz

382,395,295,2116.43.

They more or less travel t6he same path.

Bill

-- Ferme le Bush

Ok. So a light ray is composed of numerous photons travelling in the
same
path.

Now refer to this image:

http://www.sciencefriday.com/images/...imentSmall.jpg
(use magnify to enlarge)

So it's clear the the behavior of light as wave and particle can be
detected
at the same time violating the principle of complementary in quantum
mechanics enough to cause the "Quantum Bombshell" headlines in

http://www.newscientist.com/article....mg18324575.300

But a detractor says something is wrong with his analysis.

http://motls.blogspot.com/2004/11/vi...mentarity.html

Now. reading It. I think Lubos doesn't understand that as each
light ray hit the lens, it converge into an airy disc so each photon
that doesn't pass thru the wires is still affected by the wires since
the detector detects a particular airy disc (composed of all the
photons in one light ray) and not a single photon, right?? So
Lubos is wrong? sci.physics dudes agree Lubos is
right. But maybe you opticians and telescope airy discers
can analyze better and decide if a century old principle in Quantum
Mechanics is violated or not.

jayz