Timeline for Same photon or different photon?
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| May 5, 2016 at 10:09 | comment | added | John Rennie | @atom: no, see for example What is the relation between electromagnetic wave and photon?. There are other related questions on the site, but right now I can't find them. | |
| May 5, 2016 at 9:44 | comment | added | atom | @JohnRennie: Consider a LASER beam. It is stream of billions of photons; all photons moving in almost straight line. There is no interaction of photons with anything else. Still we can MEANINGFULLY say photons are traveling in almost straight line. So isn't it meaningful to talk about a single photon ? | |
| May 5, 2016 at 8:30 | comment | added | John Rennie | The interaction with the lens is more of a collective effect rather than a single photon interaction | |
| May 5, 2016 at 8:18 | comment | added | Anubhav Goel | Interactions can been seen when it collides lens. | |
| May 5, 2016 at 7:58 | history | answered | John Rennie | CC BY-SA 3.0 |