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Offline aqhl

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Nature of photon
« on: October 18, 2006, 04:58:42 PM »
I have read that photon have wave-particle duality. As a particle, it is massless and has no charge. I cannot imagine the massless particle. Someone can explain me ? 
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Re: Nature of photon
« Reply #1 on: October 18, 2006, 06:58:50 PM »
Wave-Particle Duality was talked about once. The old topic may be helpful.

Read this topic.

These types of discussions are interesting.
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Re: Nature of photon
« Reply #2 on: October 19, 2006, 05:35:44 PM »
Quote from: aqhl on October 18, 2006, 04:58:42 PM
I cannot imagine the massless particle.

Even neutrinos are not massless, why should photon be massless?
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Re: Nature of photon
« Reply #3 on: October 20, 2006, 09:09:48 AM »
The equation E=MC2 might help.    Energy is related to mass directly proportional by C2.    You can get energy from mass, so why not mass from energy???
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