Re: Properties of Light - EM waves/particles

John Berry ( antigrav@ihug.co.nz )
Thu, 07 Oct 1999 18:59:51 +1300

So any experiments that change the wave mechanics to particle mechanics change photons
into light?
I thought the definition of a photon was a quanta of light, how do you get a wave
quanta?
It seems that your definition would call the same EM radiation light at one point and a
photon at another.

Please elaborate on how you see the conventional view as supporting relativistic point
of view.

John Berry

Slavek Krepelka wrote:

> Nothing of the kind. Official version says that light behaves as particles, but also
> as waves. Whenever I mentioned that the wave should be regarded as the property
> inherent to photon, and not light as bulk, I got flamed by the orthodoxy. That is
> mostly relativistic.
>
> That is why I asked, if you realy meant photon, rather than light, or EM radiation.
>
> Actually it seems that the hell is breaking loose. There is a new experiment which
> can be interpreted in rather interesting manner.
>
> URL: http://www.bestweb.net/~sansbury/PockelsExperiment.pdf
>
> It may corellate with that Hertz experiment I posted probably in this line. I did
> not have time to really go through it yet. Just skipped through.
>
> I am posting this, because I think it will interest more of us.
>
> Regards Slavek.
>
> John Berry wrote:
>
> > Light isn't made out of photons? Or maybe you are taking the narrow view that
> > light has to be visible and so photons that are not within the visible range are
> > not light photons?
> >
> > Slavek Krepelka wrote:
> >
> > > Hello Ken at all.
> > >
> > > I have been flamed for the statment of this so many times that I think that I
> > > must be fireproof or something.
> > > Ken, can you please confirm that you meant photon by the word photon and not
> > > light?
> > >
> > > Thanks Slavek.
> > >
> > > Carrigan, Ken wrote:
> > >
> > > > Both showed that a photon has properties
> > > > of mass, and also of a wave.
> > >
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