Is there a way to precisely measure the angle of a photon interacting with a molecule or atom?
I'm asking because i'm trying to come up with a theoretical best telescope.
I figure the best way to see anything - at least anything mediated by the electromagnetic force, is to capture all of the photons from the object that you can, or as many as you can.
So really all you need to do is know where to look and when to look and all of the photons you capture from that cone of light is by definition that thing.
But unless we can figure out the exact angle at which a photon struck, we can't really be sure it came from the object we're looking directly at.
So if we can figure that out, we can make a perfect telescope.
So how do we do that. That's muh question.
Pic unrelated. I swear i looked for a relevant pic in my folders but i got bored looking and dammit. It's not that important.
>eating chicken with my bare hands in my parked car
literally ,me
I mean what the frick else are you supposed to eat them with? Do you keep a dinette set in your car just in case you need to impress the boys?
how do you think?
take your food home and eat it at the dinner table with a plate and utensils like a normal person.
not like a homeless druggie, moron
I got places to be other than home, double moron. Did you think? Apparently not.
I keep a fork in there.
Would wife. Also
you fricking schizo.
PrepHole isn't full of people who make new things, it is full of people who tell you there is no such thing.
>PrepHole isn't full of people who make new things
you think PrepHoleers make new things?
they took what they needed from their environment and made of it something more
Look up xray crystallography and xray diffraction.
You don't want lower frequencies than xray because you can just use plain xray and get better resolution than those lower wavelengths.
Wow. What an amazing idea. You must be the first person to have ever thought about telescope design.
You know, all the people who figured out everything had to ask a lot of the same questions as the people who didn't.
Yeah. And then they recorded their findings in books and articles and papers and lectures and even tutorials and the occasional FRICKING COMIC BOOK. They read all this stuff, called "the literature" and then they even contributed to it. The result is a large body of knowledge available to anyone who wants to similarly consume and contribute to it.
you spout highfalutin swill like "mediated by the electromagnetic force" and yet you seem to have learned nothing during optics week in your high school physics class.
do a bit of a deep dive on how night vision goggles work and that should give you a better idea. it's not so much about what angle a photon strikes, especially because they move in a wave pattern, but about how you can maximize the energy of said photon. worry less about quantized theory and focus more on light amplification.
PS: most shit worth seeing isn't in the visible (photon) area of the EMS.
Yeah but you aren't thinking of how many telescopes we could put to this task. If we just collect ALL of the photons, or as many photons as we can, from as many collectors as we can, however far apart we want, if we can record all of those photons exact angle of strike, we can just look through all of that data to find which photons came from exactly where we're looking at.
I assume the real challenge is in the precision of the detector to tell that a particular angle was hit, not in the actual math of how photons interact with the matter in a detector. As far as i know, detectors mostly just detect That an interaction occurred, not the angle at which it does. We have to use clever filtering techniques to tell where it came from.
But if we're gonna be capturing ALL the photons that hit a detector from all directions, then we can't use any clever filtering techniques, we need to be able to know exactly which direction a photon came from.
obvious troll is obvious, or 10 years old and kinda slow for that age
Look into PET scanner technology it is basically what they are doing (calculating the angle, position and intensity of a positron pair colliding to two captor at the "same" time). you can even do time of flight of the positron to determine their depth. Thing is, it's not exactly the same use case, were not detecting random photons from all and every side, only the one emitted by radioactive material inside a big tube. Might still be some concepts that can be applied in your case.
Dear OP,
Geometric optics are just an approximation.
Sincerely,
Your non-linear optics textbook
aren't you just describing a light field camera?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_field_camera
Optics isn't my forte, but isn't this solving a problem that doesn't exist? The purpose of the telescope is to look at a very small section of the sky, and all photons that are incident will be perpendicular to your eye/ccd. You want to look at photons coming from a different angle, point it in another direction.
think about when stuff is fuzzy and out of focus. its fuzzy because stray light is getting in. often light that is just off of the spot you're looking directly at.
Read about the technology they're developing to see around corners
They just point a camera type thing at a surface and a computer generates a rough image though a big algorithm that determines the chance that light bounced at a certain angle
This would likely get you a partial answer
Also, your wording makes it seem like you don't quite understand photon interactions so I would go take some college courses or something to get the rough understanding down and then go from there
>How do you figure out the exact angle a photon strikes an atom?
you dont have a angle.
you have angles!
a photon dont moves and strike an atom in a bullet movement, a photon "walks" in wave pattern like a snake, so when it hits, it depends on the place of the wave pattern that hit it, if it´s the top or the fend of the wave.
so the best way is not to find "an angle" but an angles! and the best telescope would be one that uses Ai, to act as module of correction of refraction on the prismatic of those photons automatic.
i will explain more clearly, if you use Ai, to either calculate a prismatic variation that will enable to any part of the wavelenght to hit at the same way(behave same way) independently of the surface of the prism, so the in this case, the wavelenght will varies and you will use ai to change the prism position to match the wavelenght angle of incidence of the prism so that you will get a "constant" value with the ai varying the prismatic position based on behavior of the wavelenght, thus enabling you to have achieved a constant value for the "varying angle of the prism".
i hope you kids get it, sometimes i get bored.
you dont bend physics laws, you just adapt those laws the way you can use them, mostly you adapt the thing you wanna use to the laws.
something something brewster angle?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster%27s_angle
I mean, photons only exist when propogating as a wave, so, I guess find the direction of strike would be the angle between the direction of propogation and the tangential line along the waveform that the photon is following. But then, to isolate a single photon in a mess of light you'd need extremely precise instruments and conditions so unless you happen to work at NIST I wouldn't bother with such an experiment.