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The photon is the quantum of the electromagnetic four-potential, and therefore the massless bosonic particle associated with the electromagnetic force, commonly also called the "particle of light". Use this tag for questions about the quantum-mechanical understanding of light and/or electromagnetic interactions.
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Moving objects using light
I'm not sure about the “pick it up with a laser” part, but let's simplify by assuming that we can hit the golf ball from below the ground with photons. … So what would happen, if the ball would absorb, say, 10 % of the photons and heat up in the process. The energy absorbed would be in our simplistic calculation around $4.5\,\mathrm {MJ}$. …
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