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Photon (other)
A photon is an elementary particle of light. Photon may also refer to: Arts and entertainment *Photon (comics), two superheroes in the Marvel Comics universe, both formerly known as "Captain Marvel" **Photon (Image Comics), a comic book superhero from Image Comics *Photon: The Idiot Adventures, a Japanese animated video series *Photon: The Ultimate Game on Planet Earth, the original lasertag game **Photon (TV series), ''Photon'' (TV series), a short-lived television show tied into the game Computers and smartphones *Photon, the codename of Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system *Photon OS, an operating system released by VMWare *Motorola Photon, a Motorola smartphone Music *Photon (EP), an EP by Bailter Space *Photon (album), ''Photon'' (album), a 2002 album by Japanese duo Boom Boom Satellites *Photon, a song by VNV Nation from the album ''Automatic (VNV Nation album), Automatic'' Other uses *Photon, the René Alphonse Higonnet, Higonnet and Louis Moyroud, Moyroud's Lumityp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Photon
A photon () is an elementary particle that is a quantum of the electromagnetic field, including electromagnetic radiation such as light and radio waves, and the force carrier for the electromagnetic force. Photons are massless, so they always move at the speed of light in vacuum, (or about ). The photon belongs to the class of bosons. As with other elementary particles, photons are best explained by quantum mechanics and exhibit wave–particle duality, their behavior featuring properties of both waves and particles. The modern photon concept originated during the first two decades of the 20th century with the work of Albert Einstein, who built upon the research of Max Planck. While trying to explain how matter and electromagnetic radiation could be in thermal equilibrium with one another, Planck proposed that the energy stored within a material object should be regarded as composed of an integer number of discrete, equal-sized parts. To explain the photoelectric effect, Eins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
