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  • that Group velocity is greater than c doesn't mean that there is really a particle moving (travelling) at that speed but rather that something is changing...
    43 KB (7,037 words) - 22:04, 3 May 2016
  • past you faster than the speed of the carrier wave particles that made up the (modulated) carrier wave.WFPM (talk) 13:12, 3 September 2010 (UTC) And another...
    215 KB (28,197 words) - 00:45, 22 August 2023
  • the wave is traveling through. Both particle and wave models help people to think about light sometimes. In the case of the speed of light, the wave model...
    88 KB (15,634 words) - 18:50, 13 March 2023
  • and the new light interfering with the original light wave to form a delayed wave. In a particle picture, the slowing can instead be described as a blending...
    252 KB (37,262 words) - 12:00, 18 August 2010
  • actually a "light-like hybrid of electromagnetic waves and mechanical oscillations of charged or magnetic particles such as electrons or ions, whereas light in...
    86 KB (14,397 words) - 07:52, 15 October 2018
  • up and down motion ie wave length. the faster the rotation the shorter the apparent wave length this solves the wave particle problem. I am interested...
    249 KB (34,901 words) - 09:34, 3 February 2023
  • electromagnetic radiation, as well as gravitational waves"? After all, no one has ever detected a gravitational wave.Lestrade (talk) 00:01, 18 January 2009 (UTC)Lestrade...
    273 KB (41,146 words) - 14:22, 21 April 2009
  • you distinguish between photons (particles)and waves? They are two facets of the same phenomena. If a particle is a wave packet and has mass, how can that...
    274 KB (42,859 words) - 04:48, 15 March 2023
  • electromagnetic waves. Since c shows up in so many areas of physics, it must be possible to determine c without using EM waves. For example, particle accelarators...
    251 KB (36,347 words) - 15:54, 4 June 2022
  • colorado.edu/physics/2000/waves_particles/lightspeed-1.html to http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/waves_particles/lightspeed-1.html When you have...
    249 KB (35,732 words) - 00:22, 6 September 2023
  • or against this would be hard to come by. Since particle accelerators only act on charged particles, even if a neutron could be generated, greater-than-light...
    63 KB (10,475 words) - 09:34, 3 February 2023
  • the wave aspects of light but also the wave-particle duality of light. According to this theory, electromagnetic forces between charged particles are...
    250 KB (39,149 words) - 12:55, 22 July 2017
  • light?". Newton to Einstein: the trail of light : an excursion to the wave-particle duality and the special theory of relativity. Cambridge University Press...
    263 KB (40,883 words) - 22:18, 21 February 2023
  • would violate causality and such a violation has never been observed. In particle physics, causality is simply defined in terms of light cones - the cause...
    115 KB (16,880 words) - 17:38, 13 February 2022
  • 299792458th of how fast light is moving. "This particle moves at 299792458 m/s" tells me that your particle moves as fast as light moves. Likewise "The chunk...
    251 KB (38,712 words) - 09:38, 6 December 2023
  • speed of light, but that really is mixup of the wave/particle properties. QED is all about the waves, leading to event probabilities. Dicklyon (talk)...
    266 KB (36,808 words) - 11:01, 5 March 2022
  • Discussion Topic Replies (estimated) Archive Link Wave equation? 4 Talk:Speed of light/Archive 1#Wave equation? Scientific notation 8 Talk:Speed of light/Archive...
    81 KB (39 words) - 03:14, 28 February 2024