On May 31, 6:05*pm, Cecil Moore wrote:
On May 31, 12:34*pm, K1TTT wrote:

what does happen to that last photon in the infinite series of smaller
and smaller reflections between discontinuities??

It doesn't matter. At HF wavelengths, the last photon is not going to
have an appreciable effect ( but maybe at gamma-ray wavelengths). The
collapse of the probability function indicates that if one runs a
large number of trials, n% of those very last photons will be
reflected and (100-n%) of them will be absorbed. That probability
function has never been proven to be wrong.

I have no idea why an otherwise knowledgeable individual could be
argumentative concerning this subject.
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73, Cecil, w5dxp.com

i hate mechanical analogies, they lead to too many misconceptions.
the last photon question was meant to be rhetorical.