[d1sxeyes]

At this point anyone who is as certain about the nature of light as you seem to be may well be right, but is demonstrating a level of confidence the literature does not yet seem to support.

Although there are those who believe that photons only exist at source and at the detector, there is some experimental evidence which contradicts that (for example, this 2013 paper in which researchers 'read' information from a photon without destroying it, which implies its continued existence between creation and observation: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1246164).

For what it's worth, I am also of the opinion that your tone was hostile, and yes, 'textual words' can and do have a (metaphorical) tone. Regarding downvoting and critiquing, there's an old adage about if you walk into a room and it smells of dog shit, maybe someone in the room stepped in something on the way in, but if every room you walk into all day stinks, well maybe you should check your own shoes.

[blueprint]

so, you're trying to tell me that such reasoning about "dog shit" applies to the ignorance of humanity in general? The reality is the very few people actually understood what they were talking about and a lot of people went around operating on what they didn't really know. So while you call me an asshole for correcting a number of incorrect people in this thread who are themselves rather overconfident, I have to again insist that because I am correcting them or destroying their delusions does not make me hostile and there's a very good chance that you're projecting that impression. The definition of hostility includes the intent to do harm or to be unfriendly, which is in fact what the people I am replying to are doing by spreading misinformation, as if they know. If that's too difficult for you to accept, then best that you do not reply to me, because it would be a waste in both of our time. "falsehood travels a great distance in one night before the truth even crosses the threshold of the door". And the masses sentences Socrates to death just because he called them hypocrites. It's a good thing I know these truths or I would have been damaged by you. It still makes me sad though.

and for what it's worth I don't believe the paper you linked says what you think it says.

[d1sxeyes]

OK.