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How Big is a Photon? (Video)

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By: Bill Meara
9 August 2024 at 13:05

As I have mentioned in the podcast and in blog posts, I have a lot of trouble picturing HOW 20 meter photons somehow fly off my antenna.   I understand how EM WAVES are generated.  But there doesn't seem to be any corresponding explanation for how the photons are generated.  

This video looks at a related question:   How BIG are the photons of visible light?   I am not sure this is all correct (and neither, apparently, is the creator of this video) but it is very interesting.  

Comments are welcome.  

Electromagnetic Waves -- Sir Lawrence Bragg -- Royal Institution (Video)

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By: Bill Meara
14 July 2024 at 11:14

This is a really wonderful video.  I especially liked his presentation on the nature of the EM spectrum, and his use of the centimeter waves to demonstrate wave behaviour.   The two slit experiment was very nice.  Sir Lawrence's presentation on SWR was brilliant.  

Still, you wonder how would all this be done if those waves of Sir Lawrence (and Young, Maxwell and Faraday) were considered to be the photons that they also really are? 

In any case, three cheers for the Royal Institution: https://soldersmoke.blogspot.com/search?q=Royal+Institution  


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