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Light -- Photons or waves

• Subject: Light -- Photons or waves
• From: Lars-Henrik E
• Date: Sun Jul 02 12:47:26 1995
• Cc: Ray Tomes
• Message-Id: id555

Dear Lars-Hendrik

Thank you for your reply. I have put it to a scientist I know and he has given his
opinion as follows:

>Date: Sat, 1 Jul 1995 11:04:52 +1200 (NZST)
>From: Ray T 
>Subject: Particles/Waves
>
>Dear Swami

>
>I agree that it is possible for a medium made out of solid particles
>to form waves.  It is also possible for a continuous solid or fluid
>with no discontinuities to form both waves and particles.  The
>particles are then a special type of waves.  It is difficult to tell
>which is the case in the real universe.  My present working hypothesis
>is that the ether is continuous rather than particles, but I am only
>75% confident of that.  For me the crucial test will be whether a
>theory based on my work can get the value of Planck's constant to
>pop up somehow.  Planck's constant is the measure of the quantisation
>at small scales.  If it cannot, then the alternative is that there
>are little particles like your religion says.  In that case there is
>still a need to show that these can produce Planck's constant which
>is not just a measure of a small size.  It is a relationship between
>size and energy, or of angular momentum.
>
>This is of course almost the deepest question of existence.
>
>Regards
>
>Ray
>
>
>
>

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