Timeline for Could an infinite number of photons fit into a finite space?
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| Aug 15, 2023 at 23:41 | history | protected | joseph h | ||
| Jan 18, 2021 at 12:26 | history | edited | Qmechanic♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 19, 2020 at 11:11 | comment | added | my2cts | @PM2Ring Photons can convert into particle-antiparticle pairs,which idealised bosons can not. Photons are therefore are not entirely ideal bosons and your argument is not ultimately compelling. | |
| Oct 19, 2020 at 11:09 | comment | added | my2cts | Do you mean an infinite number of photons and nothing else ? | |
| Oct 18, 2020 at 1:40 | comment | added | PM 2Ring | @Robbie Photons are bosons, i.e., they obey Bose-Einstein statistics, so there's no limit to the number of photons that can occupy a given quantum state. This is in stark contrast to the behaviour of fermions (matter particles), which obey Fermi-Dirac statistics and so are restricted by the Pauli exclusion principle. Of course, energy considerations prevent an infinite number of photons occupying a finite volume, as described below. | |
| Oct 17, 2020 at 23:52 | comment | added | Robbie Goodwin | Don't you think that would require a special re-definition of either "finite" or "infinite" or both? Failing that, how is it not obvious that no "infinite" anything could fit into anything "finite"? | |
| Oct 17, 2020 at 22:11 | comment | added | Zo the Relativist | isn't this pretty much what the infrared divergence is? | |
| Oct 17, 2020 at 20:35 | answer | added | Árpád Szendrei | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 17, 2020 at 13:49 | answer | added | Deschele Schilder | timeline score: 5 | |
| Oct 17, 2020 at 13:16 | answer | added | my2cts | timeline score: 14 | |
| Oct 17, 2020 at 12:53 | answer | added | peterh | timeline score: -1 | |
| Oct 17, 2020 at 7:54 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Oct 17, 2020 at 6:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackPhysics/status/1317344591562067970 | ||
| Oct 17, 2020 at 3:05 | vote | accept | Sagar Patil | ||
| Oct 17, 2020 at 0:10 | answer | added | joseph h | timeline score: 32 | |
| Oct 16, 2020 at 23:52 | history | asked | Sagar Patil | CC BY-SA 4.0 |