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Old 10-23-2007, 06:49 PM   #29 (permalink)
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And if I understand the quantum theory at all, the question of whether light is digital does not have a yes or no answer. Is there a physicist in the house?
While not a physicist, as I recall, incoherent light (what we get from the sun and light bulbs etc.) are waves and certainly analog. Coherent light (i.e. lasers) can be pulsed from the source and so perhaps could be considered "kind of like" digital.
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