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Title: Does a travelling photon bend space and it's associated fields?
Post by: ron123456 on 24/01/2022 21:35:18

Hello......Does the travelling mass of a photon bend the fields in space around it forming a magnetic field tunnel propelling the energy packet wrt quantum mechanics? Thx

Title: Re: Does a travelling photon bend space and it's associated fields?
Post by: Kryptid on 24/01/2022 21:54:59

No, nothing has to propel a photon. Newton's first law is enough.

Title: Re: Does a travelling photon bend space and it's associated fields?
Post by: ron123456 on 26/01/2022 16:13:17

This conversation is just simply 'Just Chat' pseudoscience .......I was trying to think of an intermediary between Classical Wave and Planck's Quantum Particle.......I was just suspecting that if Maxwell's derivations were done in a different frame travelling at max speed, if the results could be fragmented and that any extra magnetic field segments could form  photon tunnels.......Thx .....again just a pseudoscience speculative idea......more than likely B,S.
 

Title: Re: Does a travelling photon bend space and it's associated fields?
Post by: ron123456 on 27/01/2022 17:29:41

Let me revert into Classical.......Is an electromagnetic field pulse of a specific coherent length considered equivalent to a particle? If so, then what attributes make it so?.....Thx....just casual please......

Title: Re: Does a travelling photon bend space and it's associated fields?
Post by: evan_au on 27/01/2022 20:38:14

Quote from: ron123456

an electromagnetic field pulse of a specific coherent length

We may be jumbling up a few terms there...
- If you have a continuous-wave source (like a laser or a CW radio tone), it is possible to get very high spectral purity, and long coherence length
- If you have a short pulse, the wavelength is spread over a wider range of frequencies and the coherence length is shorter
- But you seem to be talking about individual photons, which can be measured to have an accurate wavelength, but you are rather uncertain when predicting the time of arrival

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavelength
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherence_length
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle