Light interference question?

Question

Say you are looking at a stage and see the scene clearly. Next imagine a curtain made of photons falls down. Would you still be able to see the scene clearly? Or would the light from the stage have interference from the light falling down? Imagine you are in space so that reflection off of air molecules is eliminated.

My question is: Is there ANY interference? Will the scene remain pristinely same or will it slightly become hazy??

The essence of my question is this: Do photons simply pass through each other? Or do they interfere??

Answer 1

Actually the "curtain of light" that falls down in front of the stage does NOT interfere with the light reflected off the stage and then travels to your eyes for you to see. However, if any of the photons from the "curtain of light" move in the same direction as the light from the stage that's entering your eyes, then YES it will interfere.

The key here is who and where is the observer, and what light reaches the observer. If the observer is a human being, then our eyes will register any light that enters our eyes, and if we were looking at the stage, and this "curtain of light" blocks our field of vision, only those light that reaches our eyes from this "curtain of light" will register inside our eyes, thus interfere with our viewing of the stage. The other photons that does not enter our eyes but are also from the "curtain of light" will not interfere because they will travel and move away from our eyes, thus have NO effect on our vision.

Answer 2

Good question.

My educated guess is that the light from the stage would pass through the photon curtain with no effect. This is based in experience. A curtain of radio waves doesn't block other radio waves. The light from the sun (heading out into space even at night when we can't see it) doesn't block the very faint light from distant stars and galaxies.

And waves behind boats pass through each other. But they DO superimpose (combine temporarily) as they do so. So if there WERE air molecules, you might see some scattering right at the surface of the photon curtain.

Nice to see an original thinker on this board!

Answer 3

Hi. In order to have interference you need coherence. Laser light is coherent so a scene illuminated with laser could have interference fringes if a second laser projected from a slightly different angle was projected on the scene.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

that is a good question. my belief is that you will not have interference in this case, i cannot think of any experiments that address anything like this