Re: How long is a photon?
- From: pete <pfiland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 12:53:52 GMT
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 frequency of a photon
is only a function of the amount of enegry in the photon.
The wave length of a photon is a function of the frequency
of the photon and the medium that it's traveling in.
We're talking about color here, not flash duration.
Light is a tranverse wave, so the dimension of wavelength
may be the width of the photon, rather than it's length.
It makes more sense to me that a photon would be too wide
to get through the holes in my microwave door,
rather than that the photon should be to long to get through.
--
pete
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