Wednesday, 8 October 2025

Against the Photon as a Tiny Bullet

Photons are often depicted as little bullets shooting through space. This metaphor is deeply misleading. A photon is a pattern of potential actualisation, not a tiny solid object. Its “path” is defined relationally: how it interacts with matter, fields, and measurement devices. Thinking of photons as bullets obscures interference, superposition, and entanglement — the relational character of light itself.

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