Re: Is photon a wave packet ?

[Jack Uretsky <jlu@HEP.ANL.GOV>]

Let the "someone" step forward to be cross-examined about what he/she
really meant!

Please ask a question that you are willing to stand behind and explain.
                                        Regards,
                                                Jack
On Thu, 16 May 2002, Robert Cohen wrote:

> Would it be appropriate to say that space, itself, is deformed in some way
> between the source and detector?  [I would say that the EM field is deformed
> but someone once told me that this is the same thing as saying that space is
> deformed]
>
> ____________________________________________
> Robert Cohen; rcohen@po-box.esu.edu; http://www.esu.edu/~bbq
> Physics, East Stroudsburg Univ., E. Stroudsburg, PA 18301
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Michael Edmiston [mailto:edmiston@BLUFFTON.EDU]
> > Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 12:38 PM
> >
> > A flashtube or laser emits a flash of light.  I don't think for this
> > question it matters whether it is a single photon or a bunch
> > of photons.  I
> > don't think it matters whether the duration of the flash was
> > a microsecond
> > or a femtosecond, but it was much shorter than one second.
> >
> > Some of the light is headed across "empty space" to a
> > detector located 10
> > light seconds from the source.  When approximately 5 seconds
> > have elapsed,
> > describe the space between the source and detector... what's there...
> > anything describable?

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