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Re: An Idea - 01-11-2008, 03:22 PM

Hi Dipayankar;

I guess no higher authority is going to handle this one so maybe you and I will have to try to figure it out.

First it's an interesting thought that you posed, that a photon is a DIMENSIONLESS point particle. I have been researching and thinking. Here is my understanding regarding light and the photon.

Light, the wave, is a 2 dimensional transverse wave. It is electromagnetc radiation. It doesn't create it. It is it. Being a TWO dimensional transverse wave it has THREE dimensional characteristics, namely Length, Width, and Heigth.

Photon, the particle or " bundle " of light, is massless and has been refered to as a ghost particle. That doesn't mean it's a dimensionless point particle, that would be as I said before, would be NOTHING. rather it like light is created when mass is converted to energy. It is the EMR.

Now when light is viewed through a prism you get the spectrum.

I believe the photon and light wave are one and the same. The 2 dimensional transverse wave is bundle by what appears to be particles again because they have L,W, and H.

It's been nice discussing this with you but I do wish Neutralino or somebody else who knows the ANSWER, not their own speculation would check in on this one.

Best to you,

Pat
  
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