Me the moron.. well one small question Prof.. do you believe a dimensionless point can exist and be stable??? Neutralino and Dave, this questions to you as well...
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Originally Posted by Profpat  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 |