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Photon Chain Reaction.

Since light is a wave we should conclude that the photon that leaves an object is not the same photon that arrives.  We only know that if one photon leaves then only one photon can arrive.   So there is a chain reaction in which there is a path but it's not necessarily a straight one.    There is a single path though of one to one interactions.    What if a wave consisting of a single photon is actually a chain reaction where a photon interacts with an electron which then interacts with an electron.   The distance between each interaction is the wavelength.  The number of interactions is the frequency.     This makes me wonder though how it would be possible for the interactions to be so perfectly periodic.    Who knows if a photon will encounter an electron at a particular point.  If you substitute the electron for another type of particle say a electric photon.  As if there were a photon for the electric field and a photon for the magnetic field then it would be easier to underst
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Some Thoughts on Light.

There seems to be an almost mathematical property of light.   Where light can be in two states.  Either it's a ray or it's being diffused.  It's almost always forming rays though even when diffused.  However you could say that diffusion is about destroying a ray.  A ray carries information about it's origin in the wave-fronts which comprise it.   If it passes through glass it's giving incorrect information about it's origin because the rays have been altered by being offset.   This itself is the result of diffusion.  Light diffuses around the atoms in a glass (because the wavelength is larger than the distance between atoms)  There seems to be something about light that makes it hard to diffuse. Diffusion takes place when light passes through a slit smaller than it's wavelength.  This is true of all waves.  A ray is a series of wave-fronts stacked up to form a ray.  An analogy would be a building.  Imagine a tall skyscraper as a ray pointing straight up.  
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Differentiation

One thing I've encountered in trying to learn things is that one thing will be essentially similar to another and without realizing it the two have the same properties. You can memorize the outline and have an idea of what a book of the Bible is about and yet can you tell how the different books differ from each other.  It's easy if the books recount events but in the Letters of Paul can you say what each book is about as opposed to the others?   How do the books differ from one another?  This is differentiation and something I think we need to do more of. The interactions of light with matter.   I can read about absorption transmission and reflection?  I rarely come across an explanation that includes all three and as a result of not taking into account all of them we may create an explanation for one that contradicts the explanation of the others.  Even now though I have a hard time coming up with an example because I've thought about all three in relation to each
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You will know them by their fruit.

You don't need to know a Christian by his fruit.   The key is to know the church by it's fruit.  If the church produces bad Christians then go to a different church.  You can easily tell if a church is loving when choosing a church as an outsider since how they treat you is easy to determine. It's easy to love those who love you.  What's hard for them to love you if they don't know you so if a church treats you the outsider with love then it's probably a good church.  The Bible isn't about confusion.  It's confusing to tell whether a christian himself bears good fruit or not.   We aren't here to judge individuals.  What purpose does that serve other than to make us judgemental?   You know a church by it's fruit.   That way if the members treat you badly you aren't judging them you are judging the doctrine of the church that produced them.  There's no judgement involved of people only the doctrine which is inanimate and has no feelings to
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Why you would want to do acrylic over oil:  Frazetta would do under-paintings in oil.   Oil under-painting can be done in one color only.  Not burnt umber paint and white but just burnt umber only.   You can draw white lines with the handle of the brush you can wipe off white areas with a rag and just keep working that way till the under-painting is perfect.  Being able to draw white lines with no paint whatsoever is a huge advantage when doing under-painting.    Plus the under-painting looks gorgeous by itself.   It occurs to me why not use acrylic on an oil painted whiteboard?  Or you could do masking with acrylic paint if it comes off so easily.   You could also do scratch-board techniques.   And if that doesn't work then maybe you can do acrylic over oil.  I wonder if it would make interesting textures.   Maybe there's a clear gesso you could apply to an oil underpainting.  It would be nice to be able to do a nice oil underpainting.
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Wave Particle Duality Solved?

I've been researching about waves for a  while now and the very nature of all waves is somewhat counter intuitive.   Waves don't have that many characteristics but they do have some odd characteristics.   Take diffraction for instance.   When a wave of any kind passes through an aperture of a size less than the wavelength the wave will diffract or spread out in all directions.   However if the aperture is larger than the wavelength the wave continue on as if it were  a ray.   The reason it does this is that a wave is not a particle but many particles that are perhaps vibrating regardless of the wave direction. Wave causes a bunching up into a crest or a depletion zone called a trough.   Both are potential energy.   The energy is usually in the crests and the troughs.   Basically a wave is a configuration where stuff gets bunched up or un bunched and what those things want to do is become de-bunched un-depleted as in holes needing to be filled.    Waves are seen as spreading out
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How 3 Materials Interact with Light.

I'm interested in how 3 materials: Metal Glass Paper Interact with light. Have you ever thought about why metal is shiny while paper is not?  Why does light travel through glass but is stopped by metal?    I've been trying to nail down these things in my mind.  I looked at different articles and watched a number of videos but they only confused me because they seemed to contradict one another or oversimplify like they will tell the difference between 2 of the 3 but leave the one ambiguous.  I was most confused about reflection.   If absorption means the electron is raised to a higher energy state then I assumed that reflection meant it didn't get raised but then I would become more confused when they said glass is clear because the electron didn't get raised at all.    So I understood the difference between absorption and transmission but what is reflection?   Most articles only covered two of the three cases.  So it appears there are 3 types of interaction bet
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