If photons come on your property do you have a right to observe them

by MostRadicalMan Posted 2012/04/22 02:16:22

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	Yes - If photons come across my property i can observe them.	6 votes	60%
	NO - I can't observe EVERY photon on my property.	0 votes	0%
	Undecided!	4 votes	40%

If a person with a telescope is looking at photons that are on his private property. Who own's the protons?

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sockpuppet 2012/04/22 03:17:41

Undecided!

The landowner also owns them, but only as particles. Ownership of all wavelike properties goes to the State... which maintains speed and propagation/refraction.

The neighbor, however, owns the telescope. You've had it for weeks, and he's kinda honked off that you haven't returned it.

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john Kills 2012/04/22 02:56:23

Yes - If photons come across my property i can observe them.

I will try. This isn't the 70's anymore. Can you even get windowpane anymore? Lol

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Linkums 2012/04/22 02:49:30

Undecided!

Oh man. I love this question.
Probably yes?

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Fire&Ice 2012/04/22 02:29:07 (edited)

Undecided!

Not sure a telescope would do much good considering their size.

I usually just kick back with some friends out back, a paramecium and a professional tozoa.

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Tank 2012/04/22 02:22:25

Undecided!

But they are not OF his property, no-one owns photons anyway, and you haven't said that the person with the telescope had permission from the person/people who is/are either being spied on or own/s the whatever it is that is being spied on.

And the telescope guy is intentionally spying on others, if he is using a telescope, which is something that I am against. I value privacy.

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boatnectar 2012/04/22 02:21:03
Tank to boatnectar 2012/04/22 02:23:53

+1
Basically a light particle, sort of.

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boatnectar to Tank 2012/04/22 02:24:52
Tank to boatnectar 2012/04/22 02:27:09

Though through a telescope of someone else who is presumably unaware of the observer/hasn't given them permission? Naah, I wouldn't.

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MostRad... to Tank 2012/04/22 02:34:37

ha ha.. this is good though. the person is projecting photons onto your property. they are technically trespassing? right?

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Tank to MostRad... 2012/04/22 02:37:58

Nope, it isn't the person on your property, simply photons portraying the person. And hell, you're the one with the telescope, which would be the equivalent of inviting them over, or possibly forcing/dragging them over to your house, if an image of a person could trespass.

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