Thread: Photons?
View Single Post
  #88   Report Post  
Old September 14th 15, 08:15 PM posted to uk.radio.amateur,rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Roger Hayter Roger Hayter is offline
external usenet poster
 
First recorded activity by RadioBanter: Jan 2015
Posts: 185
Default Photons?

FBMBoomer wrote:




Again, what I hear being said here is that radio waves are just lower
frequency light waves. Really?

Not looking for a flame war, just a simple answer to my question.


Yes, radio waves are just lower frequency light waves, and light waves
are just higher frequency radio waves. And both have the properties of
photons as well as the properties of waves.

The important thing to realise is that photons don't have to be linked
to light, despite their name, because the light-related name was just a
historical accident of how they were discovered. The photons equivalent
to lower frequency electromagnetic radiation such as radio waves can't
be seen and get to and from antennae even if they are effectively
screened from the light.

--
Roger Hayter