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If light behaves as both waves and particles (photons), then how is a photons size related to its wavelength? Is a photon shaped as a sphere, or a 3D ellips? What about matter? It behaves as waves and paricles aswell, but it's size never changes, does it? Does light have to behave like a wave or a particle to interact with an electron and change it's energy level? Is the wavelength or size of the photon related to the circle that an orbiting electron creats? How do particles (electrons and/or photons) act as a wave (does it phaze in and out, does it evenly space out according to it's size, or something differant altogether)? I hope I didn't ask to manny questions, but they all seem related. I love this site, and always brows whenever I can to learn more. Nathan
Re: How big is a photon and how does that compare to it's wavelength?
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