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Old 14-January-2008, 07:20 AM
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Originally Posted by rebel View Post
Using the same equations, how could a photon be so small? If they are going the speed of light and they are mass, then by the standard models' equation; the photons should be almost infinite in size!!!!!!!

Seems to me that the equation itself says it's wrong, or there is no such thing as a photon in light.

I prefer the latter of the two.
I agree; characterizing a photon as a particle is a poor choice. But it is ok to say a photon has a mass-equivalance of energy. Photons have wave functions, and personally I think even the photo-electric effect can be properly characterized as a wave, rather than particle function.
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