Sunday, December 22, 2024

Photons are particles, not waves

In today's Substack post, I explain why photons must be particles, not waves.

The simple version is that the long wavelength of a low energy photon takes a measurable time and space to reach peak amplitude, and this is something we do not ever actually see happen in nature.  Low energy signals would propagate more slowly than high energy ones.  This is a contradiction.  Therefore, a photon must be a spinning particle.  That also explains h, the reduced Planck constant.  

QED

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