Timeline for Can I change the amplitude of light and if so, how?
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| Oct 9, 2017 at 19:00 | comment | added | FGSUZ | If you think about "correctness" you'll never be satisfied. Quanta is probably another limiting case of another undiscovered theory. Physics doesn't talk about reality, but about MODELS of reality, and they work surprisingly well. It's even worse to use a too complex model for simpele things. Waves are a nice model for visible light. Anyways, a "quantum" explanation is that some photons are absorbed/reflected, and that causes a loss in the number of photons transmitted. That's why you've got less intensity after the filter, and so less amplitude. | |
| Oct 9, 2017 at 14:05 | comment | added | Kris Walker | The way I understand it is that light passes through polarizing filters as probabilistic quanta instead of the incorrect classical decrease in amplitude. How would this coincide with what you've described? Does the decrease in photons manifest themselves as an overall lower-amplitude wave? | |
| Oct 6, 2017 at 21:59 | history | answered | FGSUZ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |