What causes the photon to move at different frequencies?

In summary: Dave. They are just going to confuse you. In summary, the photon does not "move at a frequency," but at the speed of light. The oscillation caused by the photon sub particles once it influenced by the radiation generator instrument / field.
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netqwe
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What causes the photon to move at different frequencies?

Thanks in advance
 
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A photon does not "move at a frequency," but at the speed of light. The electromagnetic field can oscillate at any frequency, and therefore photons can have any frequency.
 
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Do you mean that the oscillation caused by the photon sub particles once it
influenced by the radiation generator instrument / field ?
 
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netqwe said:
Do you mean that the oscillation caused by the photon sub particles once it
influenced by the radiation generator instrument / field ?
That's meaningless word salad.
 
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Why meaningless word salad ?
How the electromagnetic field affect the photon ?
 
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netqwe said:
Why meaningless word salad ?
The sentence you wrote in post #3.

netqwe said:
How the electromagnetic field affect the photon ?
The electromagnetic field does not affect the photon. Photons are elementary excitations of the EM field.
 
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netqwe said:
Why meaningless word salad ?
.
cuz that statement ...

netqwe said:
Do you mean that the oscillation caused by the photon sub particles once it
influenced by the radiation generator instrument / field ?

didn't mean anything

netqwe said:
How the electromagnetic field affect the photon ?

the EM field DOESNT affect the photon
start doing some reading on how EM fields are generated, and what they consist of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_field

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetism

there's a couple

and here is one link about what photons are ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon
cheers
Dave
 
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you will find that frequency of a photon is a measure of the energy of a photon. If the frequency changes then the energy changes, perhaps as the result of a collision.
 
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It's difficult asking questions when you don't know much of about the language used to describe a proper answer.
It turns out that electromagnetic energy and their interactions can be described in many cases via waves, that is spread out phenomena when things are large. Radio transmitters and receivers would be an example. But at the tiny level of atomic particles, that description fails to match experimental evidence. At such tiny scales it turns out that electromagnetic interactions take place in discrete levels as point particle interactions; we call those discrete packets of energy photons. They have various energies which means they are associated with electromagnetic fields of different frequencies.

As described in the Wikipedia article referenced in an earlier post, material objects [atomic and sub atomic particles] ".. that emit and absorb light do so in amounts of energy that are quantized (i.e., they change energy only by certain particular discrete amounts and cannot change energy in any arbitrary way)." As described, Compton scattering of single photons by electrons, and black body radiation descriptions, illustrate the quantized nature of light...it occurs only in discrete rather than continuous energies. When an atom absorbs or emits some electromagnetic radiation it does so in discrete amounts...that is a photon is emitted or absorbed, say in an atom, never as 'one and a half' photons...
 
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Is there an experiment that demonstrates that the undulating movement of the photon is due to the hit of the electromagnetic field particles at it without any connection to the photon sub particles internal interactions ?
And if the photon sub particles not exists , how photon influenced by a specific electromagnetic field from the range ?
 
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netqwe said:
Is there an experiment that demonstrates that the undulating movement of the photon is due to the hit of the electromagnetic field particles at it without any connection to the photon sub particles internal interactions ?

The photon doenst have an undulating motion

And if the photon sub particles not exists , how photon influenced by a specific electromagnetic field from the range ?

photon sub particles ?? what do you think they are ? where did you read that ?

Did you bother to read the links I gave earlier ?Dave
 
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Related to What causes the photon to move at different frequencies?

1. What is a photon and how does it move?

A photon is a fundamental particle that makes up light. It moves in a straight line at the speed of light, which is approximately 299,792,458 meters per second.

2. What determines the frequency of a photon?

The frequency of a photon is determined by its energy, which is directly proportional to its frequency. This means that the higher the energy, the higher the frequency and vice versa.

3. How does the material through which a photon travels affect its frequency?

The material through which a photon travels can affect its frequency through a process called refraction. This is when the speed of light changes as it passes through a medium, causing the frequency to change as well.

4. What causes a photon to have a specific frequency?

The frequency of a photon is determined by the amount of energy it carries. This energy is determined by the type of source that produced the photon, such as an atom or a particle accelerator.

5. Can a photon's frequency change?

Yes, a photon's frequency can change depending on the interactions it has with other particles or when it passes through different materials. This is known as the Doppler effect and can affect the frequency of light from moving sources, such as stars or galaxies.

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