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From: Rudolph Babetov <plpeu@pbhrher.ru>
Newsgroups: sci.physics.relativity,sci.math
Subject: Re: What is a photon
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Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2025 16:54:08 -0000 (UTC)
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J. J. Lodder wrote:

> Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> wrote:
>> The interesting thing, at least to me, is that I notice 'scientists'
>> scream 'PHOTON DETECTED" when their equipment says so.
> 
> Strange. All of you nutters here seem to think that scientists are
> screaming all the time.
> 
> I can assure all of you from direct experience that they rarely do, if
> at all. They would be quite hoarse if they had to scream for every
> photon detected,

illucid. They never detect photons, mostly are the electrons
coming on a screen from the detecting device. Photon detection is 
stochastic probabilistic, so you make an average over a large sample
of data. Learn.