What is a photon exactly?

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What exactly is a Photon?

I know that between 1923-1925 Arthur Compton succeeded in bouncing the quanta of light off electrons. And light quanta in 1926 were called photons. But what exactly are they ? And how it links in with Gamma rays ?

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Photons are quantized electromagnetic radiation, i.e, bundles of electromagnetic energy exhibiting bot...

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What exactly is the wavelength of a photon? Is it photons or E.M waves that are emitted from atoms? Do photons travel like a wave?

I know that the photon is a very small particle, but how does this particle have a wavelength. I'm use wavelengths of matter waves but I can't picture the wavelength of a particle. I know that there is a wave-particle, dual nature, so is it that energy...

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Adding to the current posts ...   The energy of a photon of frequency  f is   E = hf Here the symbol...

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What does the frame of reference of a photon look like?

I realize in relativity we are not allowed to consider frames moving at the speed of light and such a thing is basically just meaningless; apparently the universe would be contracted to nothing and time would stop. But still, is it possible to consider...

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You have it exactly right in the question details.  For a photon, there is no time - the time experienced...

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Will this photon be visible to the eye and what will the energy of this photon be?

You calculate that the n = 6 to n = 3 transition in hydrogen will generate a photon with a wavelength of 1090 nm. Will this photon be visible to the eye and what will the energy of this photon be? (RH = 3.29 x 1015 Hz)

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No it won't be visible to the eye. It's frequency is in near infrared.

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What actually does 'frequency of a photon' mean?

This struck me while walking home today. http://i50.tinypic.com/2ni6scm.jpg so this is the general 'representation' of a photon moving forward at the speed of light. Time period t, f = 1/t. However, the photon doesn't move up-down-up-down etc, or else...

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Photon is not like a small metallic ball. You can't define photon's coordinate with uncertainty smaller...

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My question is what makes a photon to move in a particular direction and does the photon speed or velocity at?

my question is what makes a photon to move in a particular direction and does the photon speed or velocity at the time of its birth is same as the speed of light?

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The long answer is mostly correct. The photon is mass-less so it always moves at the speed of light...

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What happens to the photon inside the Sun?

I read in a popular science magazine that the photon takes 100000 years to get from the center to the outside of the Sun. This provokes some questions about the nature of photon and the conditions inside the star, not explained in the article: What happens...

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The energy is released at core and goes through a process were it hits a particle is absorbed and released...

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What is the shape and volume of a photon?

How should I visualize a photon? As a point? A dash? A plane of some shape? A sphere? An ellipsoid? Sinusoidal? Something more complicated? How big is a photon? Does its size vary with frequency (directly or inversely)? What is the state-of-the-art depiction...

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Its a little smiley face in a Tshirt. On one side it says Nobody un...

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What is the speed of a photon with respect to another photon moving in same dirn.?

if ur ans is ''c'' then plz explain what is going to change in observational frame(which is of photon moving with 'c'). Is it time which changes or something ...show more

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it wil remain c cos speed of light is same in very inertial reference frame.........the thing that's...

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Why is the chemical potential of a photon gas inside a black body exactly zero?

After several years, I still don't see the reason clearly. In the texts I have read (lecture notes, Wikipedia, Balian vol. 1), they say something about how the photon number is not a conserved quantity, but neither is the amount of one component in a...

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There is a discussion of this in the link (which is an article from Am. J. Phys.). Find p428 (about...

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