Roy Lewallen wrote:
Cecil Moore wrote:

Roy Lewallen wrote:

"Things on a very small scale behave like nothing that you have any
direct experience about. They do not behave like waves, they do not
behave like particles, they do not behave like clouds, or billiard
balls, or weights on springs, or like anything that you have ever
seen. . . Historically, the electron, for example, was thought to
behave like a particle, and then it was found that in many resepects
it behaved like a wave. So it really behaves like neither. Now we
have given up. We say: 'It is like *neither*'"

OTOH, quantum physics predicts the outcomes perfectly and has never been
proven wrong so it doesn't matter what we call photons. If you really
want to understand this stuff, you need to read a good book on string
theory. May I suggest _The_Tenth_Dimension_, by Jeremy Bernstein or
catch the two NOVAs that were on tonight.

Is that where we'll learn all about virtual photons, the fourth
dimension, and their application to measuring voltage?

Yes, six of the dimensions are thought to support the fabric of space,
the æther, if you will. String theory has yielded a unified field theory
including massless gravitons.

The point is that just because photons do not behave like pure waves
or pure particles, doesn't mean they are useless. It just means that
we don't yet have a one word handle to describe their true nature.
--
73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp



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