Funneling Light to an Electron: A Size Challenge

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Assuming that the photon packet size is generally related to the wavelength of the light, say 500 nanometers and the electron approximate size of 2.82x10<-15 meters, how does the huge wavelength funnel it's packet energy to an electron approximately 1/17,730 th of it's size?
 
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