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Reading an old thread (wich is now closed or i would post the question there) there was a discussion about the size of a photon, and if it was an adequate question at all.
The discussion on the other thread couldn't agree on a response. Yet there was some postulates that could work with this idea I am bringing to you now:
In special relativity, one of the effects for a stationary viewer is length contraction, higher the speed, higher the contraction in the direction of the movement.
So, can we assume since a photon travels at maximun velocity, it has maximun contraction?
Maybe that could explain why we can't messure a size in a photon, and its duality? yet we can in an electron?
What would this means? a photon's size would be relative to origin and destination?
Am I talking nonsense? why?
The discussion on the other thread couldn't agree on a response. Yet there was some postulates that could work with this idea I am bringing to you now:
In special relativity, one of the effects for a stationary viewer is length contraction, higher the speed, higher the contraction in the direction of the movement.
So, can we assume since a photon travels at maximun velocity, it has maximun contraction?
Maybe that could explain why we can't messure a size in a photon, and its duality? yet we can in an electron?
What would this means? a photon's size would be relative to origin and destination?
Am I talking nonsense? why?