Timeline for No magnetic dipole moment for photon
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| Jul 24, 2018 at 21:33 | history | edited | user4552 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 19, 2013 at 21:27 | comment | added | user4552 | @fffred: It's not an ironclad symmetry argument. It would just be extremely strange if the photon were the only particle whose dipole moment was an independent degree of freedom, rather than being determined by its spin. | |
| Aug 19, 2013 at 20:49 | comment | added | fffred | I don't understand the symmetry argument. Why couldn't it have a moment perpendicular to motion? The emitter might not be symmetrical as well. | |
| Aug 19, 2013 at 17:28 | history | answered | user4552 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |