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Fields and Particles Transportation

 

We all know light is a wave and also particles. Why does it have these two characters?

 

Electromagnetic fields are waves. They can divide radio wave, micro wave, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, X-ray and so on.

 

Photon is a particle and has mass. It shouldn't have wave character.

 

Light is photon involved in the field waves , be bounced and transported to the earth.

So we see light is a wave and particles. How does it work?

 

We all know basket ball. People bounce the ball and carry it forward. Light is the same.

Field waves like the people bounce the photon and carry it to the earth.

 

We know basket ball. When you bounce it faster you have to lower your hand and if you bounce the ball slower your hand have to be higher.

 

Light is the same. The infrared frequency is lower the field amplitude will be higher. The ultraviolet frequency is higher the field amplitude will be lower. The field has to have special matched frequency and amplitude so that it can carry the photon. Other field waves cant carry it.

 

We can bounce basket ball once, twice, three times per second but we cant bounce the ball once per 10 second for carrying the ball forward.

This is why radio waves and micro waves cant carry photons. Because the frequency is too low.

 

This kind transportation is not often used. In the real life we only use it to play basket ball.

 

If we can use this kind method to accelerate heavy particles to high speed, do you think it is necessary to build Europe LHC.

 

Next we can consider space travelling at incredible speed.

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Fields and Particles Transportation

 

We all know light is a wave and also particles. Why does it have these two characters?

 

Electromagnetic fields are waves. They can divide radio wave, micro wave, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, X-ray and so on.

 

Photon is a particle and has mass. It shouldn't have wave character.

 

Light is photon involved in the field waves , be bounced and transported to the earth.

So we see light is a wave and particles. How does it work?

 

We all know basket ball. People bounce the ball and carry it forward. Light is the same.

Field waves like the people bounce the photon and carry it to the earth.

 

We know basket ball. When you bounce it faster you have to lower your hand and if you bounce the ball slower your hand have to be higher.

 

Light is the same. The infrared frequency is lower the field amplitude will be higher. The ultraviolet frequency is higher the field amplitude will be lower. The field has to have special matched frequency and amplitude so that it can carry the photon. Other field waves cant carry it.

 

We can bounce basket ball once, twice, three times per second but we cant bounce the ball once per 10 second for carrying the ball forward.

This is why radio waves and micro waves cant carry photons. Because the frequency is too low.

 

This kind transportation is not often used. In the real life we only use it to play basket ball.

 

If we can use this kind method to accelerate heavy particles to high speed, do you think it is necessary to build Europe LHC.

 

Next we can consider space travelling at incredible speed.

 

As to why light has both wave and particle character, we don't really know. It is just what we observe, that's all. Observation tells us that matter also has wave-particle dual character. Quantum mechanics was devised to model this observed behaviour, which it does very successfully. It seems, at least from the current perspective of the human race, to be a fundamental feature of the universe. 

 

A photon has no rest mass. It has momentum and thus what is sometimes called "relativistic" mass, but no rest mass. A photon is a packet of electromagnetic wave energy, not a piece of matter.

 

How does it work? Well, you need to learn some quantum theory if you really want to know.   

 

What you say about radio and microwaves being unable to "carry photons" is incorrect. All electromagnetic radiation consists of photons. 

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As to why light has both wave and particle character, we don't really know. It is just what we observe, that's all. Observation tells us that matter also has wave-particle dual character. Quantum mechanics was devised to model this observed behaviour, which it does very successfully. It seems, at least from the current perspective of the human race, to be a fundamental feature of the universe. 

 

A photon has no rest mass. It has momentum and thus what is sometimes called "relativistic" mass, but no rest mass. A photon is a packet of electromagnetic wave energy, not a piece of matter.

 

How does it work? Well, you need to learn some quantum theory if you really want to know.   

 

What you say about radio and microwaves being unable to "carry photons" is incorrect. All electromagnetic radiation consists of photons. 

 

Just a nit-pick: A photon has no mass, ever. The term *Relativistic Mass* while it may give people some intuitive insight into  why light has a top speed of c, is not correct and should not be used. It is the velocity term that the Lorentz transform operates on, to give the relativistic momentum and energy, not the mass term, which is always zero for a photon.

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Just a nit-pick: A photon has no mass, ever. The term *Relativistic Mass* while it may give people some intuitive insight into  why light has a top speed of c, is not correct and should not be used. It is the velocity term that the Lorentz transform operates on, to give the relativistic momentum and energy, not the mass term, which is always zero for a photon.

Yes, I said: "sometimes called relativistic mass". Which as a matter of social commentary it is, however misleading it may be.  

 

I agree the concept of relativistic mass is nowadays felt to be very unhelpful and not to be used in physics. Today, when a physicist speaks of "mass", he or she means "rest mass". The idea of "relativistic" mass was however used quite a bit historically and has lived on in popular consciousness, so I mention it here in case it is what our poster may be thinking of. That's all.    

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Welcome to hypography, LanGuo! :) Please feel free to start a topic in the introductions forum to tell us something about yourself.

 

Photon is a particle and has mass. It shouldn't have wave character.

Exchemist and oceanbreeze have pointed out that photons have zero mass. The existence of zero mass particles is an important feature of the theory of the Standard Model of particle physics. One of the ways you can categorize particles by whether they have zero or not, which also determines whether they must always travel at the speed of light, or must always have a speed less than it. Massless particles (there are only 2, the photon and gluon, confirmed to exist, a third, the graviton, proposed by some theories) go by catchy name “luxons”, while massive particles (there are 15 elementary ones) go by the name “tardyons”.

 

Another important point is that having nonzero mass doesn’t cause a particle not to also be wavelike. This isn’t just a theoretical nicety – experiments have been done producing interference patterns with electrons in place of the usual photons. In quantum mechanics, everything has both particle-like and a wave-like behavior.

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