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Old February 5th 08, 04:53 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Cecil Moore[_2_] Cecil Moore[_2_] is offline
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Default Waves vs Particles

Gene Fuller wrote:
Cecil Moore wrote:
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.


Feynman talks a lot about when the waves get weaker,
the clicks from the detectors get farther apart, but
the intensity of each click doesn't get any weaker.
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73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com