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Can photons be charged?



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S. Barnes

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S. Barnes, Chauffeur, Graduate, Seattle

Answered Dec 23, 2020

A photon is known to be a tiny particle that will come with different waves of electromagnetic radiation. They are electric fields that will move from one place to another. Photons will not come with any charge and they use it to their advantage because they will be able to move freely.

They can also move very fast. In fact, they can travel at the speed of light. A photon is massless and getting it charged is considered to be impossible at this point. It is already stable which means that it does not have any charge in order to move around. They are emitted in different natural circumstances.

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N. Jarah

N. Jarah

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Answered Dec 22, 2020

A proton cannot be charged. A proton is a type of elementary particle, and the symbol for a proton is Y. It is massless, has no electric charge, and it is a stable particle. It has two possible polarization states. Proton obeys Bose-Einstein statistics and does not obey the Pauli Exclusion Principle.

A proton shapes a basic unit its radiation, which encompasses ultraviolet rays, infrared, visible light, radio waves, gamma rays. Since protons are massless, they move at a speed of light in a vacuum 299 792 458m/s.

Proton is a class of particle that assist elemental forces of nature and also carries the electromagnetic forces. Lastly, protons and other elementary particles are a necessary consequence of physical law having a certain symmetry at every point in space-time.

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Samantha Stewart

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Samantha Stewart, Philanthropist, Post Graduate, Corpus Christi

Answered Dec 18, 2020

The answer to this question is no. The reason is that photons do not have any charge, and they are massless. As a result, they always travel at the speed of light in empty space. Since photons don't carry any charge, they do not produce any electric field either. By definition, a photon is the smallest particle that makes up waves of electromagnetic radiation.

The concept of light won't make any sense without photons. This is because photons are the moving particles of light. What determines the number of photons is the intensity of the light. Scientists believe that; photons are not charged particles; they are products of charged particles.

While they can be emitted from charged particles, there are also other ways they can be emitted, for example, through radioactive decay. They are often described as energy packets, probably because they don't divide even when they are transmitted over distances.

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Steinn

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Answered Dec 16, 2020

Photons cannot be charged. They have no mass, no electrical charge, and they travel at the speed of light. Unlike some particles, photons and neutrons are not thought to be made of less significant components. They fit into a class of particles that assist the elemental forces of nature and carry the electromagnetic force. A photon is an example of an elementary particle that shapes the basic unit of electromagnetic radiation, which encompasses radio waves, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet x-rays, and gamma rays. Photons have no mass. In some cases, electrons can absorb extremely high energy particles of ultraviolet light then emit the energy as longer wavelength photons of observable light, which is a happening called fluorescence. They can be very detrimental to matter.
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