...27, 5:12 pm, HW@....(Dr. Henri Wilson) wrote: On Mon, 26 May 2008 08:13:27 -0700 (PDT), Jerry <Cephalobus_alie...@comcast.net> wrote: Henri was clearly pumping us for an answer to the riddle that he could not resolve. Henri wrote:   One can only speculate on what happens to a large number of   such photons that end up traveling in the same direction of   Earth. If...

... parallel, can indeed be made to cancel completely. The answer to the conservation of energy riddle is that a Mach-Zehnder interferometer has TWO output beams. If one output beam cancels completely,...> You do see that, don't you? Henri was clearly pumping us for an answer to the riddle that he could not resolve. Henri wrote: One can only speculate on what happens to a large ...

..., in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer, the light beams from one output, if perfectly aligned and parallel, can indeed be made to cancel completely. The answer to the conservation of energy riddle is that a Mach-Zehnder interferometer has TWO output beams. If one output beam cancels completely, the other beam will show complete constructive interference; likewise if the second beam ...

..., in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer, the light beams from one output, if perfectly aligned and parallel, can indeed be made to cancel completely. The answer to the conservation of energy riddle is that a Mach-Zehnder interferometer has TWO output beams. If one output beam cancels completely, the other beam will show complete constructive interference; likewise if the second ...

Dr. Henri Wilson wrote: On Mon, 26 May 2008 16:27:37 +0200, "Paul B. Andersen" <paul.b.andersen@hiadeletethis.no> wrote: Dr. Henri Wilson wrote: On Fri, 23 May 2008 14:10:56 +0200, "Paul B. Andersen" <paul.b.andersen@hiadeletethis.no> wrote: It is because the rays hemselves are not perfectly parallel. Rather there is always a degree of dispersion and...

On May 28, 5:46 am, Jerry <Cephalobus_alie...@comcast.net> wrote: On May 28, 3:56 am, Jerry <Cephalobus_alie...@comcast.net> wrote: On May 27, 5:12 pm, HW@....(Dr. Henri Wilson) wrote: On Mon, 26 May 2008 08:13:27 -0700 (PDT), Jerry Nevertheless I might still quibble about that. A Michelson interferometer also has two "outputs", one of which is not...

On May 28, 3:56 am, Jerry <Cephalobus_alie...@comcast.net> wrote: On May 27, 5:12 pm, HW@....(Dr. Henri Wilson) wrote: On Mon, 26 May 2008 08:13:27 -0700 (PDT), Jerry Nevertheless I might still quibble about that. A Michelson interferometer also has two "outputs", one of which is not used, being directed back into the laser itself. ....and the phasing of those...

On May 27, 5:12 pm, HW@....(Dr. Henri Wilson) wrote: On Mon, 26 May 2008 08:13:27 -0700 (PDT), Jerry Nevertheless I might still quibble about that. A Michelson interferometer also has two "outputs", one of which is not used, being directed back into the laser itself. ....and the phasing of those?.... Work it out for yourself, genius. http://mysite.verizon.net/...

Dr. Henri Wilson wrote: On Fri, 23 May 2008 14:10:56 +0200, "Paul B. Andersen" <paul.b.andersen@hiadeletethis.no> wrote: Dr. Henri Wilson wrote: On Mon, 19 May 2008 20:44:19 +0200, "Paul B. Andersen" <paul.b.andersen@guesswhatuia.no> wrote: If you have 10^12 photons with energy h.nu, the combined energy is 10^12 h.nu, not zero as you claim. But this is ...

... Paul, in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer, the light beams from one output, if perfectly aligned and parallel, can indeed be made to cancel completely. The answer to the conservation of energy riddle is that a Mach-Zehnder interferometer has TWO output beams. If one output beam cancels completely, the other beam will show complete constructive interference; likewise if the second beam cancels ...