Timeline for Does each photon have a unique wavelength?
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| May 17, 2021 at 19:20 | vote | accept | Jiminion | ||
| Mar 9, 2015 at 23:23 | comment | added | Jiminion | I like this answer the best. But I'm not sure I should mark it just because I like it. Pondering... | |
| Mar 9, 2015 at 17:29 | comment | added | Floris | J's - you are both right. My point was "you can't know". Hence my last paragraph. | |
| Mar 9, 2015 at 17:26 | comment | added | Jiminion | @JimdalftheGrey but it doesn't preclude them from being discrete either. | |
| Mar 9, 2015 at 17:24 | comment | added | Jim | @Jiminion Floris is saying that the information about the exact wavelength doesn't exist. This is a consequence of the uncertainty principle. But even if the information doesn't exist, that doesn't actually discretize wavelengths | |
| Mar 9, 2015 at 17:19 | comment | added | Jiminion | There is no finite energy resolution. Energy is just related to the frequency. | |
| Mar 9, 2015 at 17:18 | comment | added | Jiminion | Also, if that was the case (nature's limitation) then why couldn't the argument be made that their wavelengths ARE discrete at some point? | |
| Mar 9, 2015 at 17:18 | comment | added | Floris | @Jiminion when are you doing the measurement? How long are you willing to take? Oh dear you have finite energy resolution... Even if you started at the birth of the universe. | |
| Mar 9, 2015 at 17:16 | comment | added | Jiminion | I didn't know there were any limits to nature's ability to measure their wavelengths. I don't see Heisenberg uncertainty applying in this case. | |
| Mar 9, 2015 at 17:13 | comment | added | Jim | Sure, you give up just because it's fundamentally impossible to find out any further. Quitter! | |
| Mar 9, 2015 at 17:02 | history | answered | Floris | CC BY-SA 3.0 |