On Wednesday, August 27, 2025 at 7:57:56 AM UTC-6 John Clark wrote:
On Wed, Aug 27, 2025 at 4:16 AM Alan Grayson <[email protected]> wrote: *> It seems that polarization is created by the polarizer, in any orientation one desires, so not by any means that a point particle photon has a physical wave* *Polarizing filters work because they have a series of tiny straight opaque lines, usually made of long chained molecules, stretched in one direction a microscopic distance apart so that only waves that have a particular orientation are able to get through**.* *You're assuming the waves pre-exist the "measurement", but they don't. AG* * But how could that possibly work if a photon is nothing but a point particle and there is no need to take their very pronounced wavelike properties into account? A pure point particle wouldn't care if the lines in that filter were horizontal or vertical, but a wave would. * *But if the wave pre-exists the "measurement" it would only become manifested by some particular polarizer, in a particular orientation, not by every every polarizer in every orientation. AG* *John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* 2xj -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/aedf9909-1631-44d4-918e-765ce57571f7n%40googlegroups.com.
