Why a Photon Moves at Lightspeed Directly After Being Emitted

[talanum1]

Therefore space is not empty and can conduct infinite wave lengths?

It can't "conduct" it because it would have nowhere to go, being as long as the universe is wide.

 

[talanum1]

We do know that energy is strictly quantized, do you challenge that?

No.

 

[Captain Caveman]

As it gets emitted the photon is copied to the next Planck length in a Planck time right from the start. Then the old photon gets deleted (at the start of the second Planck time). i.e. the photon spends a Planck time at every index of Planck length.

Does a photon move at light speed or photon speed?

 

[Cassandro]

It can't "conduct" it because it would have nowhere to go,

Let's not quibble about terminology. Would you prefer "transmit?"

being as long as the universe is wide.

An infinitely long wavelength is not a wave.

1. How can a photon pass through empty planck space? What is the method of transmission? What is passing through it? At that instant, that space is not empty.

2. All particles consist of mass and/or energy. If a photon is a particle, it must deplete its source when it leaves that source. Why wouldn't photons constantly leaving a light source in infinite directions (e.g., a star) cause it to extinguish itself?

3. Light waves avoid these questions. Since space is not empty, it provides a medium for transmission without deletion of the source. Thus gravity can bend these waves, but it doesn't seem to alter their length (or direction?).

 

[trevorjohnson83]

white for me is blue or yellow. blue is more hot at the source. So blue shift turns into yellow or white shift which tapers into dimmer cooler red shift. Its because the closer to the source the stronger the push behind the wave. blue shift red shift are an effect of amplitude effecting frequency.

 

[trevorjohnson83]

AI tells me that a flashlight from a mile away through a telescope will appear a darker yellow which is down the scale from white to blue which are hottest. It rattles on about it being caused by photons so....

 

[trevorjohnson83]

AI also tells me that halogen bluish white headlights use a much hotter filament and that traditional headlights use a cooler filament that is yellow orange and dimmer.

 

[talanum1]

How can a photon pass through empty planck space? What is the method of transmission?

Copying and deleting. Something must read it at the old position and print it into the new position. So there must exist a reading and printing head. Then again: how does the head move?

 

[talanum1]

If a photon is a particle, it must deplete its source when it leaves that source. Why wouldn't photons constantly leaving a light source in infinite directions (e.g., a star) cause it to extinguish itself?

No the photons at the old position get deleted not the physical light source.

 

[Cassandro]

No the photons at the old position get deleted not the physical light source.

Thank you for your replies. I am just trying to understand the movement of light from a logical standpoint. How is a photon copied across space without a transference of information? If this involves energy, wouldn't that diminish the original source? Alternatively, is it possible that light waves transmit this information and that photons are created in the eye of the beholder?

 

[talanum1]

How is a photon copied across space without a transference of information?

The information is transferred.

If this involves energy, wouldn't that diminish the original source?

It carries energy away but new energy is constantly released.

Alternatively, is it possible that light waves transmit this information and that photons are created in the eye of the beholder?

Yes it's possible.