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Old October 16th 17, 02:09 AM posted to sci.astro.amateur
Chris L Peterson
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On Sun, 15 Oct 2017 22:26:19 +0300, Paul Schlyter
wrote:

On Sun, 15 Oct 2017 07:33:16 -0600, Chris L Peterson
wrote:
On Sun, 15 Oct 2017 13:53:13 +0300, Paul Schlyter
wrote:



On Fri, 13 Oct 2017 09:06:03 -0400, Davoud wrote:
My cameras wouldn't work if waves were striking my
sensors. Gotta be particles.

Likewise your camera wouldn't work if particles were striking your
lens. Gotta be waves.


Why do you say that? We fully understand how refractive optics work

by
treating photons as particles.


Then please explain why particles should change direction just
because they change speed. In that respect they behave just like
waves...


Because particles are described by wave functions. Particles behave in
a probabilistic way.

There is no particle-wave issue in QM. That is just a problem with
people's intuition.