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There's no chance, even with technology way beyond what we currently have, to catch a photon "half way out" of an emitter.
Sure, there are some details about the nature of light and subatomic particles in general that we cannot describe in any situation, including your image experiments
Nothing about your proposed experiemnt could tell us anything more than we already know
Originally posted by r2d246
Knowing about God, is not knowing God personally. Anyone can read the bible if they want to know about God. That doesn't mean they know him personally or are saved.
Originally posted by primalfractal
Sure, there are some details about the nature of light and subatomic particles in general that we cannot describe in any situation, including your image experiments
Do you even look at what you write? You are a walking, breathing, living contradiction. Congratulations.
Nothing about your proposed experiemnt could tell us anything more than we already know
You are so funny
Nothing about your proposed experiemnt could tell us anything more than we already know
Originally posted by tgidkp
i think i found the answer to the proposed experiment suggested by arbitrageur. by using a smaller probe (shorter time interval) for measurement, you will introduce virtual particle interactions.
i think this could be legitimately described as "curving" the vector potential. but the REAL particles will only be manifest at their known energy quanta.
Running Coupling Constant
reply to post by Arbitrageur
by "either of its basis states", i am referring to the collapse of the wavefunction to ket1 or ket0. in the case of a laser, ket0 is filtered out which leads to the coherent phase. so, at the NEW trajectory, it will collapse either of its basis. no matter how quickly you move the laser, you will never change the angle (change the frequency) of the photon.
but, as i mentioned above, "either" can turn into a menagerie of intermediate states depending on the length of the probe.edit on 27-9-2012 by tgidkp because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by flexy123
Now i have to say something to this as well:
PLEASE read the replies on the physic forum, since they point out some significant thinking mistakes you made.
A)
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You are under a misconception that a photon is made of a wave packet. This is not true. The wave function describes the photon according to our own rules and math. It allows us to make predictions about photons, such as what the probability of a photon hitting a detector at a specific location is. The wave function, or wave packet, is not "something". It is a mathematical concept.
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You are making the classic mistake to assume that something "is" because that's how physics describes it. (Similar as if some people assume that an Atom is a nucleus where an electron is "rotating around")
However, modern physics, quantum physics and in particular Heisenberg has shown that it's not that easy. There is no "location" of an electron which is rotating around a nucleus etc...IT'S A MODEL
With your thought it's the same, "wave packet" etc. as the guy above said "is not something" to observe since it's a concept to describe something, nothing more.
You assume in your theory that a photon is going from the "emitter" wherever it's going, so you move the emitter hoping to catch the photon midway "before" it's arriving at the target - but this is also a big misconception, as the guys pointed out....a photon can not be "50%" out of the device...it's emitted or NOT emitted....and i bet that also Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle will be trolling you big time if you hope somehow to catch an photon "at some location" (eg 50% out of the device)....since principles such as "distance" etc. become meaningless in quantum physics.
Heisenberg states (and it has been proven) a "position" and momentum of a partcle can not be known at the same time. In other words: You will have a heck of the time with your experiment. The experiment is BOUND to not give a valid result this is why no one has done it already.
Your cardinal mistake is to use common "layman" concepts of classical mechanics such as "position," "speed" of a particle/photon etc....but you cannot use concepts of classical mechanics and work with them in quantum and particle physics.
Short: You cannot "measure" the position of a photon!edit on 13-10-2012 by flexy123 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by primalfractal
How about "curving light wave paths" from fractional quantum hall effect in photons.
New info because fractional quantum hall effect like this is only seen in anyons.
Originally posted by primalfractal
Sure, there are some details about the nature of light and subatomic particles in general that we cannot describe in any situation, including your image experiments
Do you even look at what you write? You are a walking, breathing, living contradiction. Congratulations.
Nothing about your proposed experiemnt could tell us anything more than we already know
You are so funny
Cognitive dissonance is the term used in modern psychology to describe the state of holding two or more conflicting cognitions (e.g., ideas, beliefs, values, emotional reactions) simultaneously. In a state of dissonance, people may sometimes feel surprise, dread, guilt, anger, or embarrassment.[1]
Originally posted by primalfractal
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Originally posted by ubeenhad
Originally posted by primalfractal
How about "curving light wave paths" from fractional quantum hall effect in photons.
New info because fractional quantum hall effect like this is only seen in anyons.
I had a good laugh at that one.
1. Do you even know what a regular hall effect is? The answer to that question is no obviously.
2. The FQHE is for 2 dimensional systems.
3. The entire point is that its a property of what particle physicsts call a collective state.
4. Infact experts in this particular field would call a phonon(what you would compare to what your referring to as an anyon but for bosons), not a quasiparticle or an anyon, but a "collective excitation".
5. Now you can use any sort of 2d grouping and run a magnetic field and a current through it and cause FQHE and yes quasiparticles. You dont use anyons, anyons are part of the quasiparticles that are produces in freespace(outside of the 2d solid/gas)
So like I said, if you actually knew what you were talking about this would not be an issue.edit on 14-10-2012 by ubeenhad because: (no reason given)
Sure, there are some details about the nature of light and subatomic particles in general that we cannot describe in any situation, including your image experiments