Recent content by bifman

New Thought: It just occurred to me that perhaps I should be thinking of the entire wave as one photon? This would still leave my other answers correct, I believe...

Thanks MikeyW, I had read two conflicting (at least to me) things about photons: 1) Light is made up of photons with each photon representing an electromagnetic wave. 2) A photon is basically a “packet” of energy moving through the EM fields, and the amount of energy it carries is directly...

Hi all - thank you for this forum - it's proving very helpful: Am I correct in thinking that if we measure a period of time that light travels, that in the case of red vs blue light: 1) Both will travel at the same speed in a vacuum? 2) More blue photons will arrive than red (given...