On Thursday, September 4, 2025 at 4:38:50 AM UTC-6 John Clark wrote:
On Wed, Sep 3, 2025 at 6:53 PM Alan Grayson <[email protected]> wrote: *>> |E|^2 gives the relative probabilities of detecting a photon at different points on the screen, it gives you the correct curve shape but is not normalized so all the probabilities don't add up to exactly one. To make it a true probability distribution that integrates to 1 you divide |E|^2 by a constant, the total integrated intensity across the screen.* *> But this E is the classical energy, and when the EM field is quantized don't we need a huge number of photons to define the curve you reference above?* *If you are able to calculate the probability distribution for where a single photon is likely to deliver its quantum of energy after passing through two slits, then you will be able to calculate how the energy will be distributed across the entire screen for any finite number of photons that passes through those two slits.* *> Is there a differential equation that when solved, gives us the wf of a RELATIVISTIC particle?* *If you start with Maxwell's Equations then you get that automatically because, although they were discovered a decade before Einstein was born, they are 100% compatible with both Special and General Relativity. Interestingly they are NOT compatible with Newtonian physics because Newton claimed that all speed was relative, but Maxwell's Equations can produce an absolute speed, the speed of light, and there are no specifications about who should observe that speed, so everybody must. Resolving that inconsistency was the motivation Einstein had for developing relativity; he made no changes to Maxwell's Equations, he thought they were fine just as they are, instead he modified Newtonian physics. * *But ME's describe the behavior of the EM field, not the relativistic behavior of a particle. So I pose my question above again. TY, AG* > *Is there an equation that gives the wf of a photon? TY, AG * *As I explained before, the electromagnetic field amplitude can take on the role of a photon’s probability amplitude.* *But this is within the context of the double slit experiment. If there is a wf for a photon, it should be, I think, independent of any experimental set up. AG * *John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* ijt -- 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/bd20c928-3fd1-483f-982a-4ba09f38aa7an%40googlegroups.com.
