Sure, Al! I just pray for the sake of your knee that the Sun doesn't decide to emit bowling balls tomorrow! |
The photon starts out as a particle in an atom in the Sun and travels as a wave until it strikes the frame of the slit. That's when it turns into a particle again. Then it travels as a wave until it hits my knee, when it turns into a particle one more time. |
" Light travels as a wave but departs and arrives as a particle"
-oscillations are the same thing! Or, rather, her world consists of some more subtle ingredient, the words ‘particle’ and ‘wave’ conveying but partially appropriate pictures."
" But the electromagnetic theory is not based on action at a distance as was Newton’s. Space is thought of as being threaded throughout with electrical and magnetic tensions."
" A chemical bond acts like a stiff spring connecting nuclei. As a result, the nuclei in a molecule vibrate, rather than maintaining fixed positions relative to each other." " a field in physics may be envisioned as if space were filled with interconnected vibrating balls and springs" The Casimir Effect
other charge starts to wiggle! It's just like a rope connecting two rocks. ... the wave here consists of a wiggling line of electric force which you can think of as being 'attached' to the vibrating charge."
The Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics John Cramer |
Light: Neither particle nor transverse wave |
Adapted for the Internet from: Why God Doesn't Exist |
photons |
departure |
arrival |