Erlyrisa wrote:
oh oh...were going to get into a debate here.
a photon (the concept) has mass... thats why it's a photon.
it's the wave which is massless, just like a sound wave , it's how we picture an ethereal transgression.
No, this is wrong. A photon is a massless particle that is responsible for the phenomena of electromagnetism, and it is the quantum of light (meaning that it is an elementary particle that carries discrete packets of energy). The reason it is called a photon because the word "photon" is derived from the Greek word "phos", which means light.
A wave occurs when there is a disturbance within a field or a medium and it is the transfer of energy. I never stated that it had mass.
26 Mar 2007, 2:15 pm
