Re: "A Snapshot of a Photon"



In sci.physics.relativity, Sylvia Else
<sylvia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote
on Mon, 18 Dec 2006 09:47:23 +1100
<4585c8fa$0$29167$afc38c87@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
Hcet wrote:

"A Snapshot of a Photon"

The photon has been viewed as a somewhat mysterious entity which
sometimes has the properties of a particle and sometimes has the properties
oaf a wave.

Just like every other particle. Nothing special about photons in this
respect.

Sylvia.

Except that they're massless. :-)


--
#191, ewill3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Useless C++ Programming Idea #10239993:
char * f(char *p) {char *q = malloc(strlen(p)); strcpy(q,p); return q; }

--
Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com

.



Relevant Pages

  • Re: Superposed observers (was No new Einstein)
    ... existence of these gods makes so much sense and that quantum ... >> the photon crossing the superposed absorber undergoes a random phase ... As for entanglement, ... >say that a particle is entangled we are saying that some measurement ...
    (sci.physics.research)
  • Re: Question about Vacuum Gravity
    ... > energy, expressed as virtual particles, is a non-zero amount, ... So it is likely that just having a gamma photon ... No particle there has any other ... > energy (which is what virtual-particle interactions ...
    (sci.physics.relativity)
  • Re: attractive force via particle exchange - how?
    ... The particle is an interpretation of the field. ... that an entity was the carrier of the force. ... entities is the notion that they leap into existence out of nothing, ... > A photon is an excitation of the electromagnetic field just as the ...
    (sci.physics)
  • Re: Radiation langauge
    ... The issue - not that I specifically wish to contend the issue in physics, ... records the photon arriving before the other photon which was emitted ... > would exhibit the frequency (particle / wave) nature of the laser light. ... if we could not displace an electron ...
    (alt.usage.english)
  • Re: what is the relation between force and energy?
    ... > the matter making up the Earth is under you, ... which exist between every particle and every other ... > of atomic clocks, but they all operate on the same principle. ... I maintain that the increase in energy of the photon is of a kinetic ...
    (sci.physics)