Comments by "" (@josephcoon5809) on "Single Photon Interference" video.

Title says “Single Photon” A single photon implies that it interacts with NOTHING before interacting with the detector. How do you control for all molecules that intervene between emitter and detector? Once an electron interacts with an intervening particle, let’s say an elementary electron, that charged particle generates a new wave. Every wave front causes a vibration in every charged particle it intervenes with. Those vibrating particles then create a new wave front. How do you ensure no new wave fronts are created from the original wave so that you know that the detected wave is the exact same wave that was originally emitted?
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@ShauriePvs Even then, any device used needs to create a single resultant wave front. A photon splitter would need to be a single charged particle, just as the slit would have to be a single charged particle. How do you create a slit with two sides with a single particle? Much less a double slit with four sides (two sides per slit)? 😂
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@ShauriePvs That’s exactly my point!!
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@ShauriePvs Because it is that cascading ripple of ever expanding wavefronts created by more and more molecules which creates the perception that light “slows down” in a transparent material. It isn’t that the original wave front is slowing down, it’s that it is the resultant interference pattern creating a new perceived path of light. Even an incident wave that is perpendicular to a transparent surface gives rise to a resultant wave that is actually the cumulative waves from across the whole surface.
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