Posting #19:- "A Snapshot of a Photon"
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent oppositions from
mediocre minds." - A. Einstein
The photon has been viewed as a somewhat mysterious entity
which sometimes has the properties of a particle and sometimes has the
properties oaf a wave. It would seem interesting to see, therefore, whether we
can determine what a photon would look like if we had a "godlike" ability to
"see" it without the restrictions imposed by our limits of observation.
Since the photon is electromagnetic in nature, perhaps the
best place to start is by examining the nature of an electromagnetic wave
emitted by a dipole, such as the antenna of a radio transmitter. There is no
question that this radiation consists of crossed electric and magnetic fields
having a 90 degree phase relationship to each other. These fields are readily
observed and allow us to use them for communication over distance. (See figure below.) We also know by observation that this wave
is actually composed of discrete "lumps" of energy called photons because it is
noisy. The noise energy of the wave varies in proportion to the square root of
its total energy. As a result, the signal (energy in the wave) to noise (energy
in the wave components) ratio of the wave itself varies inversely with the
square root of the waves strength. The effect is well described in handbooks on
electromagnetic communication and seems beyond challenge.
If we attenuate the wave sufficiently, it becomes a parade of
the individual particles (photons) appearing as separate entities which may be
detected separately. The question to be answered is what the nature of these
particles must be so that in the aggregate they can form a smooth continuous
wave. To meet this requirement, the photons in the wave must be coherent. This
means that they must have the same polarization and be appropriately phased so
that they can add properly. (In lasers this coherency is defined as the distance
of millions of cycles over which the phase and polarization match is
maintained.)
The question to be answered is what form does the photon have
to be in order to be capable of combining with other wavelets to form the
coherent wave. The answer is probably provided by the "Impulse Function",
1/(e*x^2). Multiplying the continuous wave by this function provides, for the
photons which compose the wave. a shape shown by the figure below.
One only need to imagine the electric and
magnetic components of this construction propagating along its axis at the
velocity of light to envision what a photon "looks like".
When one combines this shape with the quantum coupling between
photons which has been demonstrated by the work of Quantum Physicists, one finds
that he describes the kind of entity that has the dual wave and particle
properties we associate with a photon. The only question left is why the nature
of the photon is considered to be mysterious.
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