I have some questions about light.

[jajrussel]

The first question, is all the criss crossing of the light particles as they leave the sun what cause light to appear to behave as both particles and waves? Second, wouldn't a particle of lights momentum be sufficient to keep it moving through space? Third, would gravity offer the light particle any momentum, a sort of wide angel slingshot effect from things it hasn't passed yet, in a way helping to maintain its momentum?

[ajb]

The first question, is all the criss crossing of the light particles as they leave the sun what cause light to appear to behave as both particles and waves? Second, wouldn't a particle of lights momentum be sufficient to keep it moving through space? Third, would gravity offer the light particle any momentum, a sort of wide angel slingshot effect from things it hasn't passed yet, in a way helping to maintain its momentum?

 

The quantum nature of light can be observed in the laboratory from any source of light. So, it cannot just be a artefact of light waves propagating through space from the Sun.

 

Gravity, the curvature of space-time does effect the motion of light. Light travels along what we call null geodesics, that is the best notion of a straight line on a curved space. Assuming the light does not hit anything etc it will travel along the geodesic not impeded.

 

The presence of a large mass will bend the light around the object. This is the "sling shot effect" you are talking about.

[swansont]

You don't need anything to "maintain the momentum." A photon will have whatever momentum it possesses until it interacts.

[alex folen]

The first question, is all the criss crossing of the light particles as they leave the sun what cause light to appear to behave as both particles and waves? Second, wouldn't a particle of lights momentum be sufficient to keep it moving through space? Third, would gravity offer the light particle any momentum, a sort of wide angel slingshot effect from things it hasn't passed yet, in a way helping to maintain its momentum?

 

Yelp, Yelp and Yelp.

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Come on. Light waves. Hello, it is a proven fact (almost for now) light waves travel many miles (X 100,000,000,000,00000000). Does this say anything? To anybody?

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You don't need anything to "maintain the momentum." A photon will have whatever momentum it possesses until it interacts.

 

 

 

so far ture dat!

[insane_alien]

alex, please be more coherent in your posts. i'm not even sure if what you are typing is english.

[alex folen]

Yes, it's like writing in quick slang sloppy English and sorry about that. You Scottish I should presume, not understanding, or want some thought?

[Severian]

You Scottish I should presume, not understanding, or want some thought?

 

He was probably meaning this sort of statement, which, as far as I can tell, is complete drivel.

 

(And yes, I am Scottish too.)

[insane_alien]

yes, this is an international forum with english as the preffered language.

 

our(severian and me) native language is english and we can't make out what you are saying so it is highly unlikely that someone who is not a native speaker will be able to make any sense out of it.

 

your location says florida, and although they speak their own version of english in the states, it should be trivial to extract meaning. please, remember that people other than yourself have to read your posts.

[alex folen]

understood. thank you. btw, yelp is yes.