 Speed of light & the Photon
I would say that the fact that a photon cannot accelerate (i.e it is always travelling at the speed of light) is an indicator of the heisenberg uncertainty principle in action. We should look at the photon as a particle that cannot have location.... in this way the uncertainty principle is clearly manifestsed. We know exactly the speed of the particle/wave, but we now nothing about it's location. Put another way, if something is to have no location, then it must have the absolute maximum amount of speed possible, and that this fixed speed (299792458 m/s) is determined as being the speed at which something must travel in order to be constantly in motion at the Planck time scale.
DG |