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"In physics, the photon is the elementary particle responsible for electromagnetic phenomena. It is the carrier of electromagnetic radiation of all wavelengths, including gamma rays, X-rays, ultraviolet light, visible light, infrared light, microwaves, and radio waves. The photon differs from many other elementary particles, such as the electron and the quark, in that it has zero rest mass;[3] therefore, it travels (in a vacuum) at the speed of light, c. Like all quanta, the photon has both wave and particle properties (“wave–particle duality”)." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon
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it's the particle version of an electromagnetic wave
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EINSTEIN was asked by his hostess at a social gathering to explain his theory of relativity. Said the great mathematician, "Madam, I was once walking in the country on a hot day with a blind friend, and said that I would like a drink of milk." "Milk?" said my friend, "Drink I know; but what is milk?" "A white liquid," I replied. "Liquid I know; but what is white?" "The colour of a swan's feathers." "Feathers I know; what is a swan?" "A bird with a crooked neck." "Neck I know; but what is this crooked?" "Thereupon I lost patience. I seized his arm and straightened it. "That's straight," I said; and then I bent it at the elbow. "That's crooked." "Ah!" said the blind man, "Now I know what you mean by milk!"
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'Quantum of Light' is the Subject, not the Object! http://www.worldnpa.org/php2/index.php?tab0=Abstracts&tab1=Display&id=1598 Dr. Cynthia Kolb Whitney 141 Rhinecliff St., Arlington, MA 02476-7331, United States; galilean_electrodynamics@comcast.net,
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A photon is a discrete packet of light. The term quanta referrers to packets of energy. Photons are light quanta, packets of energy in EM form.
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I don't know exactly what a photon "looks" like, but the way I think of it for convenience sake is that a photon is something like a "wave packet" like those formed in the wave distribution of a particle in quantum mechanics: basically, a "wave" with an amplitude that decreases drastically as distance from the wave center increases: this way, the photon can technically have a specific frequency, but also act as a particle (bear in mind though that in quantum mechanics there isn't a definite frequency to a wave packet, which is why you can't tell how "fast" a particle is traveling from momentum=h/wavelength).
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Its a particle.
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All these fifty years of conscious brooding have brought me no nearer to the answer to the question, 'What are light quanta?' Nowadays every Tom, Dick and Harry thinks he knows it, but he is mistaken. ( Albert Einstein, 1954) http://www.spaceandmotion.com/albert-einstein-quantum-physics.htm
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A picture of a futon?
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