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Originally Posted by ApK
...And, I'm sorry, that "photons is photons" line is utter nonsense on every level from quantum field theory up to the more practical.
You might as well says protons electrons and neutrons are all protons electrons and neutrons, so breathing oxygen is no different than breathing plutonium.
But there's really no need for analogy to make the nonsense plain to see: Gamma rays are different than microwaves are different than violet light are different than red light, and they are all made of photons.
And even in light of the same frequency (or frequency mix--white light from the sun has very different effects on people's eyes and brains than does white light from florescent office lights.) the way those photon mix, interact, scatter, reflect, the direction they hit and off of what material or surface all effect how are eyes and brains perceive them, A photograph take with a harsh flash looks very different than when that same photo is taken with a softbox in front of the flash, even if the "total number of photons" is the same.
So can we please stop that nonsense?
Or do you think a print of El Captain by Ansel Adams is indistinguishable from every vacation snapshot captured on a tourist's iPhone and posted to Instagram?...
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You are not a physicist are you (that's a statement not a question) else you would know better. You should, perhaps though, know better than to risk the possibility of getting into an argument from a position of little knowledge with a physicist.
Photons are indeed photons and they only differ among themselves in their energy and propagation direction (both being the components of their wave vector). Using your claims, which I can only interpret as meaning that there are different sorts of photons because their wave vectors differ according to their energy (you start talking about high energy microwave and gamma rays) and direction, it seems that you believe that when you start running (and so increase your kinetic energy) you change into a different person or when you change direction (and so change your propagation direction), both of which change your wave vector, you become a different person.
You may live under such delusions that you can morph into a different personthrough such actions but I will give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that your physics is bad. I am also quite confident that when you start mixing up comparisons of gamma rays, microwaves, etc. into your arguments about a subject concerned only with visible light most will see your absurdity.
I, as have others, have said that the choice of display is personal (which for the sake of clarity means some may like the appearance of one display type over another, or that the simplicity of E Ink due to its low flexibility of display is attractive), but that does not change the physics of what is happening.
This is getting off topic so apart from adding that I am amazed by the irrational non scientific gymnastics you are prepared to go through to defend E Ink and to try to prove that photons are not photons, I will leave it at that.