• @[email protected]
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    1 year ago

    The issue is that you can’t detect photons without interacting with them.

    Can’t…So far, right? Like there hasn’t been a method developed to somehow detect indirectly without interaction? I don’t know enough about this to know how one might go about that, but I imagine those that know more might love to given whatever knowledge may be gained.

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      131 year ago

      No. Can’t. The only interaction sensors have is with particles. Photons usually. All things give off light but then measuring light itself, measuring is destructive.

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      81 year ago

      “Detecting” equals “interaction” in this context. You can’t detect them without detecting them.

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        41 year ago

        Although, given some further thought, isn’t the double-slit experiment being discussed here sort of demonstrative of a “detection” without detection, i.e. the wave pattern vs. the particle pattern emerging after “detection/measurement/interaction”? Or am I misunderstanding it?

        Is there another way they operate/appear outside of the wave-particle that eludes observation?