Guest guest Posted October 10, 1999 Report Share Posted October 10, 1999 Anurag Goel <anurag Vivekananda Centre <vivekananda 10 October 1999 21:47 Mass n photon Jay i was thinking that a photon has both a wave as well as particle nature then sudely i remembered that any object too has a wavelet n hence a wave nature. If i am right such was shown or proposed by De-broglie. Doesn't it sound interesting both matter n photon having sort of same natures. Can we say we don't even wat excatly is matter or mass. Response:- Photon has a dual nature - it is both a particle and a wave at the same time. This is not just a matter of mathematical conjecture. Nor is due to any temporary limitation we face in observing the universe. It is the way things are. Photon is both a wave and a particle. There is something strange about this particle though - it has no rest-mass. You can never bring it to rest - you can't even slow it down or catch up with it. Other elementary particles like electrons also possess a dual nature and act as waves and can produce diffraction patterns like any other wave. But these particles can never (repeat never) travel at the speed of light. The other major difference being these other particles have a rest-mass (mass measured when they come to rest) while photon just does not come to rest and has no rest mass. And yet it has to be regarded as a particle! There is a whole lot very interesting things in Physics today. Can these wondrous things have anything (even remotely) to do with spirituality? We wonder. jay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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