I completely agree with your third point where you said "in most cases".
It was your first two points trying to create an analogy with light that I was responding to
worfosaurus
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Neither EM wave interference nor noise cancelling headphones are quantum mechanics. It's not nitpicking.
This is fundamentally not true.
Light is made of electromagnetic waves. If you can control the timing of those waves precisely enough, you can add another light with the opposite phase (an inverted wave) that will cancel out the other light.
This is what happens in the famous "double slit experiment". It's also the same principal as noise cancelling headphones albeit with sound pressure waves instead of EM waves.
Scientists have actually cooled atoms very close to absolute zero by shining a laser at them
My man, this is nothing like an abused spouse, dubious fart
They're both great!
I personally like Star Trek better because it's the OG and has better world building.
I must be a weirdo because I actually preferred the Orville more in the first season when the focus was a bit more on the comedy, as that brought something new and hilarious to the table. In the later seasons, they shifted to what feels extremely similar to TNG, which made it less interesting for me, although I do still enjoy the story. The similarity isn't just in the style or themes of the show, either... I remember seeing multiple episodes of the Orville with plot lines that directly correlated to specific TNG episodes.
The most important thing, though, is that we get more Sci-Fi on TV. The more the merrier!
It was theorized that light could be a wave way before the double slit experiment. Like, a century before. So no, it wasn't "assumed light is 100%" quantized before that experiment.
Anything that is a wave can be cancelled, so this idea was baked right into the wave theory of light, they just didn't have the ability to control light precisely enough to prove it until the double slit experiment. You don't need quantum mechanics to explain wave theory, it just happened that the double slit experiment, while proving that light behaved like a wave, also showed other characteristics that it was also behaving in a quantized fashion. The fact that light is quantized into photons has nothing to do with the fact that they cancel so you really don't need quantum mechanics to explain it. The reason light can be cancelled is exactly the same as every other thing in physics that behaves like a wave.
The word quantum comes from the word quantization not "quantify". Those two words mean different things
Light is a wave. It also happens to be a particle. So the "existence of waves" is not a different subject. It's exactly this subject
Edit: Love the snarky edit to a post full of being confidently wrong. I'm going to go engage with others. Good day, sir/ma'am!