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Is there is theoretical limit on how large a frequency (or how small a wavelength) an EM wave can have?
No.........Is there is theoretical limit on how large a frequency (or how small a wavelength) an EM wave can have?
Is there is theoretical limit on how large a frequency (or how small a wavelength) an EM wave can have?
How can you draw this conclusion?If there is a limit then either the Doppler's shift is completely wrong for ultra high frequency or there is a bound (less than c) on how fast one can travel with respect to a source of a light.
So what happens in a photon-photon collision? There should be infinite frequencys involved?in Doppler's effect, the frequency goes to infinity as one approaches a light source close to the speed of light... so if there is a limit on how high frequency goes and Doppler's effect is correct, then there is limit (lower than c) on how fast one can travel toward a light source. similarly, if there is a lower bound on frequency, then there is a limit (lower than c) on how fast one can travel away from a light source.
actually if you pump enough energy into a photon it will entually become a different kind of boson, I forgot the particulars however.
Certainly. I didn't mean that tim_lou's conclusion have to be wrong, I know doppler effect equation and how it works. Mine was just a question.lightarrow:
Infinities are very frequentlyserious problems in physics.