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Re: Is photon a wave packet ?



On Thu, 16 May 2002, Michael Edmiston wrote:

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?

Do the same thing, but with a 10MHz frequency. EM is EM, after all.

While on the fly, are radio waves not describable? Or do you mean that,
as the wavelength becomes shorter and the quantized energy larger, they
become more quantum-y and less describable?


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