What's the size of a photon?
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What's the size of a photon?
Ethan Thompson
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Jackson Garcia
Massless pleb
David Stewart
Picture has photon mass. It's resting mass is 0
Jonathan Williams
I know it's massless, but what about it diamater/volume?
We can see them, they touch our retina/photoreceptors, so it must have a diameter/volume!
Austin Brown
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It can't have volume without mass exactly. It has a wave function instead.
Jayden Reed
>can't answer simple question
>has to obfuscate with meaningless equations
Physicists, ladies and gentlemen.
Samuel Cook
so if it doesn't have a size/volume, we can put an infinite number in a 1cm3?
Owen Williams
I'm not a physicist bud, was just curious too and thought I'd help you out by researching it myself. Sorry man.
Carter Sanders
Okay I'll try to awnser your question again then.
>a photon's "size" is roughly half a fermi, which is .5×10to the power of -15m
Nathaniel Roberts
not him but citation needed
Eli Edwards
>forum
was thinking about academical work
Jeremiah Young
Just trying to help ya man, fuck me. Wikipedia describes it's volume in terms of P, it's momentum (mass × volume), but doesn't seem to leave room for mass when at rest. Look up photon on wikipedia and don't ask people on sci if you're going to be an ass to someone simply offering what he can. I figured it was better than nothing, if noone else replied at least you got my 2 cents. Even though that's not much.
Levi Gonzalez
Plus you're asking about it on Veeky Forums. I'm sure that science forum is more likely to be accurate than Veeky Forums's Veeky Forums board would be. It actually has some great conceptual awnsers. I thought you said you didn't want some equation shit anyway when I posted my first post of a fucking screenshot from wikipedia anyway
Liam Thompson
Yea I agree, you're fucking asking about the size of a photon like a moron would and then when someone actually is willing to help you with your stupid question you bash them for it. You're lucky anyone took the time to awnser your dumb fucking nonsensical shit in the first place. Grow up.
Luis Green
you replied to different persons thinking it was the same as op (me)
Jaxson Morgan
I'm not that guy you're confusing people.
You're being uncessary rude like him.
Luis Gonzalez
The wavelength CAN NOT be less than Planck Length (1.616*10^-35 meters).
Grayson Jackson
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Jason Smith
Honestly it's a silly question. It's more useful to consider them as point in space rather than actually taking up any physical space. Besides, since their spin, it's really irrelevant how much space they take up anyway.
Oliver Campbell
>silly question
yet, no clear answer.
Austin Garcia
implying denying truth insults physicists
Owen Thompson
it's a silly question because you're taking the particle interpretation as a literal definition
Ryan James
Just came back to this thread. See? I wasn't a complete idiot. It is a silly question to ask if you even slightly understand particle physics. My awnsers were definetely good ones and you just shat on it.
Jose Davis
Asking for the size of an elementary particle is like asking for the weight of a bit of data.
Jayden Davis
There is no 'size of a photon' because there's always a photon which is smaller
Christian Wright
Yes, that's how bosons work