Must be Global Warming
Was this interaction consensual?
59 times in trillions of interactions. Finally, something more rare than my love life.
Light interacting with light....
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Is that like ex Dem cabinet people or intelligence officials like Clapper creating huge amounts of hot air by interfacing with hot air from Wolf Blitzer and Don Lemon? Sometimes the TV image shimmers like at Death Valley in July.
Didn’t pay a lot of attention in physics classes.
As a side note to this thread, it is becoming clear that the only exact science is global warming. /sarc
The example given is for a very energetic photon , a gamma Ray. There are even stars that blow up because of this effect, this switch between gamma Ray’s of the correct energy and those electron positron pairs.
How do they know? According to the Observer Effect, you cannot observe something without altering it.
Photon torpedo are next - yeah baby.
after your 5th beer or so, ….. it’ll all make sense?
If light IS interacting with light then it’s not impossible.
If it happens, it’s not impossible! Duh! elementary logic!
So then light doesn’t consist solely of photons. Another theory bites the dust! Quick, invent another one!
“Hey, bro, how’s by you?”
“Not so good. My significant positron and I got separated.”
“Well, that’s a shame.”
“Yeah, and worse, she caught me talking to a photon and now won’t come near me.”
“Oh, wow. You were going for a three-way?”
“I know how it looks. But now, I don’t even know if I’m a wave or a particle.”
“Have you tried a slit test, man?”
“Like I said, she won’t come near me.”
So if a proton identifies as an electron, it can then use the preferred restroom?
“Dude, you’re in my space. Get outta my space.
“In this picture of the subatomic world, the photon isn’t necessarily a photon. Well, at least, it’s not always a photon. Particles like electrons and photons and all the other -ons continually flip back and forth, changing identities as they travel.”
I do not believe this to be a fully true state of affairs of nature.
What is missing is (a) in our actually limited understanding of these things (we know what we know which is very much less than knowing all there is to know about them), we (b) have designed our means of detecting such things with our limited knowledge inherently limiting our detection abilities and with results biased to our limitations.
In time we may eventually have means of observing photons in a manner in which we finally see that what have appeared as changes to us, were not changes in the true nature of photons at all. A piece of equipment inadequately designed to recognize a photon non-stop continuously in all its ways, cannot see that nothing has changed - it is simply not in the same limited range of observation as when initially observed.
We “see” the appearance of things because our “sight” is limited.
Physicists wrong again, yet will still expect to be worshipped as infallible demigods.
Remember this the next time that smarmy Tyson shows his arrogant mug.
Insufficient information. We cannot evaluate this until we know the race, gender and sexual preferences of the researchers involved.
My brain hurts.
a photon interacting with a positron or an electron (even though they are “virtual”) is the same as interacting with an actual photon?