Re: What is a photon

J. J. Lodder wrote:

Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> wrote:

The interesting thing, at least to me, is that I notice 'scientists'
scream 'PHOTON DETECTED" when their equipment says so.

 
Strange. All of you nutters here seem to think that scientists are
screaming all the time.
 
I can assure all of you from direct experience that they rarely do, if
at all. They would be quite hoarse if they had to scream for every
photon detected,

illucid. They never detect photons, mostly are the electrons
coming on a screen from the detecting device. Photon detection is
stochastic probabilistic, so you make an average over a large sample
of data. Learn.