{"id":6179,"date":"2010-08-06T03:00:59","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T08:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=6179"},"modified":"2010-08-06T03:00:59","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T08:00:59","slug":"the-photon-did-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6179","title":{"rendered":"The Photon Did It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/08\/whats_a_photon_and_how_do_we_k.php\">Uncertain Principles:  What&#8217;s a Photon, and How Do We Know they Exist?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Even if the energy of a single photon is significantly greater than the energy required to trigger a &#8220;click&#8221; in your detector, for a given frequency of light, you will only ever find the energy arriving in single-photon amounts.<\/p>\n<p>How do we know this is the case? There are three great historical experiments that mark the key steps on the way to full acceptance of the photon model: the photoelectric effect, the Compton effect, and photon anti-bunching.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oops.  Spoiler alert.  Sorry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uncertain Principles: What&#8217;s a Photon, and How Do We Know they Exist? Even if the energy of a single photon is significantly greater than the energy required to trigger a &#8220;click&#8221; in your detector, for a given frequency of light, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6179\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}