This has been a known scientific "fact" for over 220 years.
It has been utilized in most of the semiconductors and many other devices utilizing quantum effects every day.
If you want to get funky, study Wheeler's delayed choice experiment and then Dean Radin's consciousness inducing collapse of double-slit experiment wave function (although it's not really a collapse, but that's a story for another day).
I shake my head and stump my toe into the dirt thinking about all the smart people on this site. You, my friend, are one of those folks. I wish I has a tenth of your knowledge, but I'll just be happy to have a decent house and a wonderful wife. Thanks for a reply that makes my brain spin and keeps it thinking. I truely appreciate your reply to the original post.
What she "proves" experimentally has been known since 1880. Eletromagnetic radiation is a wavelike phenomenon, that can be best modelled mathematically using wave functions. However that is JUST A MODEL, it's not reality.
Also, sometimes, when probabilistic interference causes cancelling effects some of the phenomena can be more simplistically measured like waves were like particles. AGAIN, it's just a MODEL, not reality.
What she doesn't go into and she will learn later, is that reality is QUANTIZED (incl light, space and time). There are smallest size of "packets" (again a MODEL) of light which have experimentally and mathematically modelled particle like qualities. This is equally true as well.
There are even photon counters, many of the current measurement devices work on this principle and yes they do work.
But again, they are just models. We have no way of understanding experimentally yet what the underlying reality that the models try to depict actually is.
But Quantum effects that require some parts of EM spectrum to act like quantized "packets" of radiation are real.
"Photons" is a theoretical construct we use to model and calculate reality, which we can't "see".
It works up to a point, then it breaks down, just like ALL models.
There's much more that is "broken" in Quantum models, and there's much more that still works "well enough".
Remember, they are all models.
So, she's right, but only half-way. She will learn this later on, in her further studies.
This has been a known scientific "fact" for over 220 years.
It has been utilized in most of the semiconductors and many other devices utilizing quantum effects every day.
If you want to get funky, study Wheeler's delayed choice experiment and then Dean Radin's consciousness inducing collapse of double-slit experiment wave function (although it's not really a collapse, but that's a story for another day).
I shake my head and stump my toe into the dirt thinking about all the smart people on this site. You, my friend, are one of those folks. I wish I has a tenth of your knowledge, but I'll just be happy to have a decent house and a wonderful wife. Thanks for a reply that makes my brain spin and keeps it thinking. I truely appreciate your reply to the original post.
I've done this and further tests in lab myself.
What she "proves" experimentally has been known since 1880. Eletromagnetic radiation is a wavelike phenomenon, that can be best modelled mathematically using wave functions. However that is JUST A MODEL, it's not reality.
Also, sometimes, when probabilistic interference causes cancelling effects some of the phenomena can be more simplistically measured like waves were like particles. AGAIN, it's just a MODEL, not reality.
What she doesn't go into and she will learn later, is that reality is QUANTIZED (incl light, space and time). There are smallest size of "packets" (again a MODEL) of light which have experimentally and mathematically modelled particle like qualities. This is equally true as well.
There are even photon counters, many of the current measurement devices work on this principle and yes they do work.
But again, they are just models. We have no way of understanding experimentally yet what the underlying reality that the models try to depict actually is.
But Quantum effects that require some parts of EM spectrum to act like quantized "packets" of radiation are real.
"Photons" is a theoretical construct we use to model and calculate reality, which we can't "see".
It works up to a point, then it breaks down, just like ALL models.
There's much more that is "broken" in Quantum models, and there's much more that still works "well enough".
Remember, they are all models.
So, she's right, but only half-way. She will learn this later on, in her further studies.