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photonkid
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I'm a "layman" when it comes to physics and I read in the FAQ that a photon is not a real particle but is described as one for the benefit of lay-people.
I read that 65 billion neutrinos pass through a square centimeter every second so I wondered how many photons pass through a square centimeter every second, perpendicular to the sun, when exposed to the sun. Can anyone tell me?
Wikipedia says a photon is an elementary particle and that it's a gauge boson.
So now I'm wondering, if electromagnetic radiation is an oscillating electric / magnetic field, in a beam of light, are photons "side by side" or do they follow one another? How close behind one photon is the next photon? Does the electric / magnetic field of one photon interfere with the other photons around it?
TIA
I read that 65 billion neutrinos pass through a square centimeter every second so I wondered how many photons pass through a square centimeter every second, perpendicular to the sun, when exposed to the sun. Can anyone tell me?
Wikipedia says a photon is an elementary particle and that it's a gauge boson.
So now I'm wondering, if electromagnetic radiation is an oscillating electric / magnetic field, in a beam of light, are photons "side by side" or do they follow one another? How close behind one photon is the next photon? Does the electric / magnetic field of one photon interfere with the other photons around it?
TIA