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You answers look very funny to me!
Photons do not occupy space. Can two or more photons occupy the same space simultanously?
Do your photons travel in space? Say no to this.
I will answer your questions as I need to understand the depth of your knowledge on quantum mechanics.
I can screw the logic of quantum mechanics with a very simple illustration:
Let,
A = xyz
B = yxz
C = zxy
Among A, B, and C - what is the variant and what are the invariants?
x, y, and z invariably exist in A, B, and C. So, they are the invariants.
Variant is the order in which x, y, and z exist in A, B, and C.
Therefore,
VARIANT IS THE ORDER OF INVARIANTS. This is the basic principle of quantum mechanics.
Try to discern the statement: VARIANT IS THE ORDER OF INVARIANTS. Quantum mechanics will perfectly fit into this principle.
The one unable to comprehend the above illustration can never understand the premises of quantum mechanics.
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You have very shallow knowledge on photons.
Try reading the following:
Also reading moar physics on the wikipedia. I trust that thing. It better not phail me. Damn it, electromagnetic radiation and photons are weird. Okay, so we have photons. These cary electromagnetic radiation. Okay, so what is this? A changing magnetic field produces an electrical field. Amirite? Well, a changing electric field produces a magnetic field. OKAY. That just makes absolute perfect sense and explains everything. OR NOT! But as far as I understand this electromagnetic field - it is the space around (well, the field) things that have charges. These charges make particles behave differently. But now the radiation bit. It is a 'propagating oscillatory disturbance in the electromagnetic field'. So, the this field is being vibrating and moving along. But it is also explained as the two components oscillating at right angles (orthogonal) to each other. So an electric field is oscillating, and the magnetic field is also oscillating orthogonal to this? HUH? WTF?
I still fail to understand exactly WHAT this oscillating thing is. Okay, it would make perfect sense if it needed a medium to pass through like sound, because as far as I understand it, charged particles are needed to create the field in the first place.
But, but, but enter photons. Are photons the electromagnetic field oscillations? Well, they are some type of 'quanta'. Which are 'descrete packets of energy'. Okay, what does that mean? Like a packet of chips, but energy? It says charged particles emit photons. So, does an electromagnetic field create photons? Like out of thin air or what? Well, it goes on to say that photons excite electrons making them jump up to a higher energy level (AKA further away from the nucleus), and this makes sense from chem. And when it goes back to a normal (jumping back down in energy) it releases a photon which is the same as the energy difference. This is characteristic to a specific atom, and its why things are coloured the way they are, because the absorb a specific photon, and relsease a specific photon wavelength. Different wavelengths = different colours in visible light. Can't see x-rays, etc. These photon things also do not have a mass. Mass = how much matter in something, and matter is something that occupies space. So photons do not occupy space? But then they say that matter is a lose concept anyway. But can I fit an infinite number of photons in a cup, for example?
Now, it starts to say that electromagnetic radiation can behave like a wave or a particle! HUH? So, what I described above with the 'oscillating thing' seems to be the wave. The photons are the particles. That do not have mass. So they are there but they are not there. Bleh.
I believe my view of the world is now beginning to change, because as far as I understood it, things were made out of atoms, which are made of proton, neutron and electrons. And the fundamental force is the attraction between positive and negative. But now those things are made of smaller things, like quarks and photons. And it may be possible these things aren't actual masses, as in these things could occupy the same space and it wouldn't matter. But they don't because of forces which I do not know about. And I have now come up with Nervous_Neuron's Law: Stuff is always made out of smaller stuff. And for this to work, it would have to go around in a circle, so the biggest thing, for example, the universe IS the smallest thing, the quark (or whatever it may be). And I think I have seen that before.
Oh yes, the Simpsons.
Anyway, I think I was too focused on things being 'either/or'. It's either a 'mass of something' or its a 'disturbance of something' (AKA a particle or a wave). I still can't really picture it being another way. I still picture a photon as a ball of something. Because that's how models of particles are drawn, as little balls. But all this stuff is really theory and a model, this stuff can't be seen and it might be a different way to how we know it now. We might just all be made out of nothing.
That's enough of that before my brains explode out of my head.
So, does that mean I am creating a force that will cause my brains to accelerate against my head, causing forces of repulsion in the skull, causing it to break to pieces? What kind of a force? Is it an electromagnetic force which is creating photons from my brain to gang up on my skull laser style? OMG MAH BRAIN IS CHARGIN MAH LAZOR!!11
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Also read this article:
Quantum Theory and Wave/Particle Duality
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1. Photon is energy.
2. Photon has energy.
If statement 1 is true, then one does not need a special term 'photon'. One can well use the term 'energy'. Energy has components by definition.
If statement 2 is true, then photons have components. One of the component is energy. All the other components are yet to be identified.
The correct Answer:
Surprisingly both the statements are correct!
Photon while exhibiting itself as wave, it is Energy.
Photon while exhibiting itself as particle, it has Energy.
That is the Ultimate truth, which is every thing in the Universe can suddenly disappear and manifest as energy waves, the entire cosmos will be seen as empty space. Scientists are unable to understand why this duality.
How can the one which has no component exhibit more than one property?
Correct Answer:
Sub Atomic Particle exhibits as wave property and particle property at its Will. This is mysterious!
The one who finds HOW will be Nobel prize winner!
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I am sorry to write in a rough tone. But, is very essential in order to establish the truth and lies of quantum mechanics.
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Without conflict, there would be no development!!!!
Despite your clever (and lengthy) smokescreen of insults and bull****, I couldn't help but noticing that you still haven't answered my question. I think I'll ask it again, just so you don't forget.
You continue to insist that photons are divisible. Fine, let's assume for a moment that you're correct. If photons are divisible, then they must be made of something, they must have component parts. What then, are the component parts of a photon?
Anyhow, now I understand that the article which I wrote (the OP) will fire many people.
For some reason, it's fun to argue with someone who continues to hold to their position despite being repeatedly proven wrong.