Re: How long is a photon?
- From: glhansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Gregory L. Hansen)
- Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 21:01:16 +0000 (UTC)
In article <1116016608.604183.269890@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
<dlham@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>If an atom emitted a photon (a burst of light energy) for 186,000th of
>a second - would the photon be one mile long? If it lasted for just 1/2
>a second the photon would be 93,000 miles long. Do you think the length
>of the photon has some bearing on the slit experiments that says a
>photon can be in 2 places at the same time.
The photon is a point particle, the wavefunction can have virtually any
length.
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