[Laser] Photons?

KD7JYK kd7jyk at earthlink.net
Wed Aug 22 03:21:18 EDT 2007


Found my answer, no reference to Radons, Feelons, Smellons...  Interesting
stuff though!

In modern physics the photon is the elementary particle responsible for
electromagnetic phenomena. It is the carrier of electromagnetic radiation of
all wavelengths, including gamma rays, X-rays, ultraviolet light, visible
light, infrared light, microwaves, and radio waves. The photon differs from
many other elementary particles, such as the electron and the quark, in that
it has zero rest mass;[3] therefore, it travels (in vacuum) at the speed of
light, c. Like all quanta, the photon has both wave and particle properties
("wave-particle duality"). As a wave, a single photon is distributed over
space and shows wave-like phenomena, such as refraction by a lens and
destructive interference when reflected waves cancel each other out;
however, as a particle, it can only interact with matter by transferring the
amount of energy

Kurt



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