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Nope. Radio waves are made of photons. All EM waves are made of photons.
by quantadev 2y ago
Nope. Radio waves are made of photons. All EM waves are made of photons.
- oneshtein 2y agoRadio waves are not photons. Light beams are not photons. Light beams (or similar sources of EM waves generated by individual electrons or nucleus) are made by photons. We can record individual photons. Maybe, radio waves are made of photons, but nobody confirmed that yet, so I can safely say «no». If you can confirm that, Nobel prize is yours. Are radio waves quantized? Of course, at Planck scale. Is it possible to form a single 100kHz photon using a macro antenna? I hope for «yes», but I have no idea about «how».
- quantadev 2y agoMaybe check Wikipedia? Because it refutes you in the first sentence on the articles for "radio", "photon", and "light". You're just being pedantic about word definitions to play games with people.
- shadowgovt 2y agoThe experiment (one of them, that I'm aware of) that cements wave-particle duality is that you can dial the energy of an emitter down until it's emitting one photon at a time and still detect interference in a double-slit experiment. This is impossible if the photons and waves are distinguishable phenomena. Radio waves are photons; photons are quantum entities that have particle- and wavelike behavior simultaneously.
- oneshtein 2y agoPhotons are EM-waves. Are photons made of photons?
- quantadev 2y agoGreat, now add to that the fact that radio waves are an EM-wave too, and that answers your original confusion.
- oneshtein 2y agoSo, in your opinion, photons are EM-waves, which are made of photons, which are EM-waves, ad infinitum? Or you oppose this? Please, say something useful.
- quantadev 2y agoSaying that Radio waves are a particular frequency range of photons is not a tautology. The only one making up tautologies is you.