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I meant "gist"lightarrow said:Sorry, don't understand "jist".
I was mentioning that photon interaction with matter isn't the only tool that we have. We can add time and distance to the study. We can also add motion of the source and detector to the study. We can also try to study the effects of photon-photon interaction. Introducing these types of non-matter variables offers another kind of measurement as touched on below:lightarrow said:I'm lost, here.
How would I prove that the pure thing, a photon, exists without speculation? I think the process is that we first observe effects a,b,c,d, then we notice a correlation among observations and assume that there was a cause for it. We then simply name the mystery cause a "photon".lightarrow said:Mmmh, I would talk about "clues to what the pure thing is between the measurements" if we could analyze the "pure thing" properties through another kind of measurement, otherwise, how would you prove that such a "pure thing" really exist and it's not a mere speculation?
As a bonus, nothing stops us from deriving plausible models of the photon that predict future findings. I think we agree that the existence of those extended models might be difficult to prove. I also have a beef with the layman's model which I think causes confusion in communication and perception, but I guess we have to start somewhere.
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