On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 7:43 PM, David Roberson <[email protected]> wrote:
What is the currently accepted size of a photon that behaves as a particle? > If one of these passes through our very large slit experiment how would it > be detected at one location as with light photons? Could it be detected > over a large area of the impact region with say a dipole antenna? Has > anyone given this concept much thought? > I was thinking about this myself. If you contrast a photon involved in the transmission of a radio wave with one that is in the gamma ray range, there is an obvious qualitative difference from our frame of reference. The gamma photon is like a tiny bullet, and the radio wave photon is like a large, and enlarging, bubble. Despite the clear qualitative difference, I am led to believe this difference is entirely relative to the physical and temporal dimensions of the frame of reference. To an observer far larger and more slow moving than the radio wave photon, I suspect that photon will interact with its surroundings like the gamma ray photon does in our world, and to an observer much smaller and more quickly moving than the gamma ray photon, the gamma photon will behave in the manner of the radio wave photon in our frame of reference. If we take away this kind of relativity of the temporal and physical frame of reference for photons, this would appear to imply a kind of absolute position in the midst of a spacetime otherwise characterized by special relativity. Eric
