Where is photon located when it is not absorbed by electron?

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where is photon located when it is not absorbed by electron? Magnetic field?
 
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where is photon located when it is not absorbed by electron? Magnetic field?
A photon simply doesn’t have a position. The quantum mechanical operator that defines the position of a particle fails for massless particles.
 
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