Timeline for Photons and visual light
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| Jan 16, 2020 at 18:07 | vote | accept | Zachary Wells | ||
| Jan 16, 2020 at 18:06 | comment | added | Zachary Wells | Ok, thank you for the info about the distinguishing of photons and how they change their frequency, polarization, and position. | |
| Jan 15, 2020 at 23:31 | comment | added | user234190 | @Bill Alsept Yes the OP says "the photon that is absorbed and then emitted", hence my comment. | |
| Jan 15, 2020 at 23:28 | comment | added | Bill Alsept | @user47014 In that case there’s only two choices. A photon impacts exciting an electron which then emits a new photon or the original photon is refracted Orr scattered. | |
| Jan 15, 2020 at 23:20 | comment | added | user234190 | @Bill Alsept also position is different and changes. But that's all not what I was addressing. I was talking about whether we can say the same photon comes out of something that goes into it, and whatnot. | |
| Jan 15, 2020 at 23:00 | comment | added | user234190 | @Bill Alsept Yeah a photon's frequency and polarization can change also. | |
| Jan 15, 2020 at 22:34 | comment | added | Bill Alsept | @user47014 Other than frequency and polarization | |
| Jan 15, 2020 at 22:13 | answer | added | Árpád Szendrei | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 15, 2020 at 19:09 | answer | added | anna v | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 15, 2020 at 18:41 | history | edited | Deschele Schilder | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
a bit elaboration
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| Jan 15, 2020 at 18:31 | comment | added | user234190 | Photons are indistinguishable from each other, if you are concerned on whether we can judge whether the same photon is at use one place or another. | |
| Jan 15, 2020 at 18:13 | comment | added | Zachary Wells | Thanks for asking for the clarification Aaron and as I understand it the photon continues to bounce around in the object until it is fully absorbed and then the object emits the photon but in a different form that is produced as visual light but is the same energy as the photon. Again please correct me if I'm wrong. Light fascinates me very much but I seem to have a hard time grasping the subject. | |
| Jan 15, 2020 at 18:04 | comment | added | BioPhysicist | Sometimes not all of the energy is absorbed so that photon continues to bounce around until it's fully absorbed. Do you mean bounce around in the object until it is absorbed by the object, or do you mean the photon bounces around outside of the object until it is absorbed by our eye? | |
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| Jan 15, 2020 at 17:58 | history | asked | Zachary Wells | CC BY-SA 4.0 |