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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 -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
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