Re: Voting on LIGHT (was energy with Q)

[Brian Whatcott <inet@INTELLISYS.NET>]

At 07:50 AM 11/14/01 -0800, Bill wrote:

> Particles such as grains of dust or very small bullets are not quanta.  A
> stream of cannonballs does not display interference effects as do
> electrons, photons, etc.  Unless students are *very* sophisticated, they
> will hear the word "particles" and think of tiny billiard balls.

/snip/

> William J. Beaty


As far as I know, there is a deBroglie wavelength associated with material
particles - which can display interference effects.
 They need to move rather slowly however....

Brian


Brian Whatcott
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