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Nature of photon
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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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Wave-Particle Duality was talked about once. The old topic may be helpful.
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These types of discussions are interesting.
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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
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The equation E=MC
2
might help. Energy is related to mass directly proportional by C
2
. You can get energy from mass, so why not mass from energy???
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