Re: ATM No, photons don't bump into each other?

[akelly@ghgcorp.com (Albert F. Kelly)]

>Duane Sand wrote,
>> The photon starts 
>>and ends its travels as a discrete particle, but does its weird travelling 
>>as a broad wavefront happening in probability space, whatever that is.
>
>Consider, also, that photons are produced by energy changes in the electrons
>surrounding atoms, and are detected the same way (ie changing the energy of
>electrons). In between they travel at the speed of light by definition. In
>the photon's time frame they leave and arrive simultaneously, ie the 2 atoms
>are, in a sense, simultaneously linked by the energy change.
>
>Does this mean that every photon has to have a arget atom, and does it also
>mean that there are at least twice as many atoms as photons?

Hi Andy!
        
        No, this means that every chicken has at least one associated egg,
except in certain parts of South Dakota where local statutes preclude it.

Al