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In high school, doing modern physics, and was struck by a thought about light, energy of a photon and the "speed limit" of relativity.
I'm probably very wrong, but I would like to be shown why :)
My understanding of energy and matter relations is that when you increase the energy levels, you increase the speed of the atoms within a mass, this leads to other manifestations of the energy such as sound, heat, motion, etc.
With light it is different, speed stays the same, but frequency/wavelength and momentum change.
Would it be possible that light/photons of higher energy levels are actually "moving" faster than those of less energy, but, because of relativity's speed limit, the speeds observed by a static observer would appear the same?
As space/time changes to ensure that nothing goes faster than c, it might result in the length contraction (changing wavelength) and time changing so that the frequency is observed to be faster.
thanks in advance! :)
I'm probably very wrong, but I would like to be shown why :)
My understanding of energy and matter relations is that when you increase the energy levels, you increase the speed of the atoms within a mass, this leads to other manifestations of the energy such as sound, heat, motion, etc.
With light it is different, speed stays the same, but frequency/wavelength and momentum change.
Would it be possible that light/photons of higher energy levels are actually "moving" faster than those of less energy, but, because of relativity's speed limit, the speeds observed by a static observer would appear the same?
As space/time changes to ensure that nothing goes faster than c, it might result in the length contraction (changing wavelength) and time changing so that the frequency is observed to be faster.
thanks in advance! :)