Do Photons Experience Changes in Potential Fields?

DeG · Jul 24, 2011

Are photons effected by traveling through electric or gravitational potential differences? If so, how so?

mathfeel · Jul 25, 2011

DeG said:

Are photons effected by traveling through electric or gravitational potential differences? If so, how so?

Photon is not charged. So it is not affected by the electric field.

Photon has energy, so does responds to gravitation potential different. It can gain/loss energy and therefore red/blue shift.

DeG · Jul 25, 2011

Does the electric field component of em waves not interact with electric fields and likewise with the magnetic component? Also, could I get the mathematics behind the blue and/ or red shift of light do to gravitation?

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