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Lorien6 t1_j8gz8bn wrote

Reply to comment by Weed_O_Whirler in Light traveling through a medium that slows it. Does the same photon emerge? by TheGandPTurtle

What if photons have tiny little “fingerprints” where you could, with sensitive enough equipment, identify them?

Or like a serial number…

Would that work for identifying them each and seeing if it was the same?

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lucidludic t1_j8hiihq wrote

If you assume photons are uniquely identifiable, then of course you could identify them. But why should that assumption be correct?

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