I tell my students “light travels as a wave and interacts as a particle.” Is this wrong for any obvious reasons?
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Replying to @InertialObservr @dcwych
but classically for waves there's no light-light interaction in the vacuum, right? without a source term maxwell's equations are linear, and therefore any superposition of solutions is a solution.
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Replying to @RyanDavidReece @dcwych
classically no but it still has a wave function
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i think we're talking about two different kind of self interactions .. you're talking about light by light scattering and i'm talking about the interference pattern arising from its wave function
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