Ralph Hertle wrote:
Double-A wrote:
Ralph Hertle wrote:

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It has always seemed to me that when multiple photons
are spewed out at the two slits there is a shell game at
work.

Ralph Hertle



To my best recollection of how Feynman described it, when you shoot
only a single photon through a slit in the double slit set up (or an
electron, or an atom), the photon or particle hits a seemingly random
spot on the target screen as you would expect. But if you continue the
experiment of shooting photons or particles one at a time and recording
where each one strikes the screen, after a while your start realizing
that the photons are not hitting randomly, but the ghostly interference
pattern of a double slit experiment with photons passing through both
slits simultaneously starts to appear, even though there is seemingly
nothing to interfere with each individual photon! If you cover one
slit and repeat the experiment, the interference pattern disappears!

Double-A



Double-A:

If the mask were a true 100 percent photon absorbing stealth material
would that prevent spewed photons from being re-radiated from the
reverse side of the mask?


That's not what's observed.


Are you saying that a single photon projected through only one of two
open slits will cause an interference pattern?


That is what's observed. That's why its considered a mystery.


How far apart were the slits in the experiment?


I don't know.


If the I-pattern appeared would not that mean that the photon
was as large or larger than the distance between the two slits?


Perhaps its wave nature is, but not its particle nature.'


I am referring to the photon that is a physical entity as it is of itself,
and not merely the property of some other entity, e.g., the screen.

Ralph Hertle


Double-A