Photons: a Definition

[nomercy]

Both loaded, 17 bullets in each clip. *holds both against temples*

[Teh EkwEE]

Just venture into an online area of Yahoo Chat and you'll see. Just dont' make it too bloody.

[mr_shoe_uk]

...Just one thing...

Lightbulbs aren't hot because photons give off heat, it's because lightbulbs are inefficient.

[jarl]

Actually, it's because lightbulbs heat up the wire inside them, the heat gets radiated, it feels hot.

Light bulbs also give out photons (this is how CRT TVs/monitors work)

Using filament lamps, a perfectly efficient light is impossible (then again, a perfectly efficient anything is impossible). filament bulbs are about 20/25% efficient- yeah, from your 50W bulb you get 10W of usable light. Filament bulbs are just about as efficient as tehy'll ever be, LED's hold the key to efficient lighting of the future, though flourescent lighting is also pretty good.

[Arrogantelf]

So, if we could sit on a photon, in a vacuum, travelling at the speed of light,would(due to relativity) the light around us be travelling at the speed of light too, and does the particle/wave duality of a photon mean that one photon can occupy two different points in history at the same time?

[Teh EkwEE]

Essentially ,light, is immune to time. Of course you say light takes eight minutes to reach the Earth. This is true, but that is distance measured by the speed of light. If you travel at the speed of light, you "travel into the future" because you're moving so fast, essentially time continues to travel forward. The faster you move, the slower time proceedes. At the speed of light, time stops, or rather, time doesn't exist for the light. Time will proceed for an outside observer. For a person speeding up to light speed, things would become progressively slower until they seemed to stop. Also, normal particles also have particle/wave dualities, it's a property of quantum physics and string-theory. String theory looks at probabilities of the location of a particle not a solid particle. Which, is essentially a string or wave, the same with photons.

[Little Killer]

. . . is there a creature that gives of photons? Interesting thought.:alien:

Um. Yea! a good photon weapon. . . I have no clue.

[nomercy]

The Ruins and Seabeds creatures all look like their claws and stuff are made of photons.

Good photon weapon would be some form of extreme source of energy focused on a singular point, so that it's made possible to use it without chopping your own extremities off.

[Little Killer]

. . . are there any military photon weapons other than lasers?

[Teh EkwEE]

No, no there are not.... -_-;