Royal2000H said:
[quote author=SenKat_Stonetek link=1213817549/12#17 date=1213887493][quote author=Royal2000H link=1213817549/0#6 date=1213823723]the light is made up of photons
take out the wave property, it's no longer a photon, just a particle
A photon is a photon - the wave property is simply how they move...a laser by definition is all the photons concentrated, and moving in one direction, thus creating the laser beam. 0nm is not possible, as that is the measurement of the spectral wavelength - at 0nm, it would not exist ! 1nm would be very, very tiny - since a nm is a measurement, not an object.
Basically, by concentrating more and more photons in the laser beam - you are increasing the power of the laser beam - nothing more. a 200mw laser has more photons beaming out than a 20mw laser, etc, etc, etc... make sense ?
**edit** That movie is
fantabulous !
<----it's a word NOW, as I added it to my Firefox's dictionary
[/quote]
that doesn't negate what I said... "at 0nm, it would not exist !"
that's exactly my point. 0nm is impossible for a photon....[/quote]
Not entirely, no, but even particles have wave nature. The Earth has a wave nature, and has a wavelength. You can't take wave nature out anymore, because matter has a wave nature. You take a whole bunch of earths, launch them fast enough at an appropriate diffraction grating, and they will diffract, just like light. Nothing can have zero wavelength, especially not light, but not having a wave nature doesn't make it a particle. 0 wavelength (I'm not going to say nm, because it could be any length measurement. In fact, I'm going to start using furlongs. Either that, or leagues.) is impossible for a photon, but it's also impossible for anything, even particles and all matter that they form.