Re: Properties of Light - EM waves/particles

John Berry ( antigrav@ihug.co.nz )
Thu, 07 Oct 1999 19:01:37 +1300

My sentences are becoming very sloppy.

John Berry wrote:

> Please elaborate on how you see the conventional view

"Of light as photons"

> 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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