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To: Boot Hill
All I think I know is that light is quantized into integer counts. You can count individual photons (or whatever they are).
343 posted on 09/29/2004 1:22:00 AM PDT by DB (©)
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To: DB

Sometimes you can count them, but SOMETIMES you should treat light as a wave!


345 posted on 09/29/2004 1:23:46 AM PDT by ableChair
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To: DB
All I think I know is that light is quantized into integer counts.

LOL, then explain the operation of a Fabry-Perot Interferometer based upon photons!   J

--Boot Hill

356 posted on 09/29/2004 1:39:02 AM PDT by Boot Hill (Candy-gram for Osama bin Mongo, candy-gram for Osama bin Mongo!!!)
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