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Quantum mechanics has this extreme intellectual sheen, and disagreeing with the orthodoxy is a surefire way to self-recategorize as a crank. The layers of lindy thinking accumulate into unquestionable dried crusts that seminarians are instructed to accept on faith so they can join the church of shut up and calculate.
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What if: - photons don't exist, it's merely that emission and absorption are quantized - low angle polarization can coax em waves into new polarizations - high angle polarization (e.g. 0 and 90°) fully absorbs the energy of a wave Seems like you could explain almost everything that way
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If this were true, where would we observe discrepancies?
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If this were true it might make new predictions, but I doubt there would be discrepancies. Perhaps the only discrepancy would be whether quantum computing could work
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