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Old February 5th 08, 01:20 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Gene Fuller Gene Fuller is offline
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Default Waves vs Particles

Cecil Moore wrote:
John Smith wrote:
While I cannot dismiss the existence of the photons, I am not aware of
any experiments which have been able to measure them.


Hecht says: "... researchers ... have conducted experiments
in which they literally counted individual photons".


Hecht is quite correct. This is a standard technique in several areas of
physics research. I personally spent several years in my relative youth
designing, building, and using photon counting apparatus.

73,
Gene
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