The breakdown of Newton's laws is not your biggest problem with that
situation. The main problem is the fact that the system which you have
postulated is impossible. No particle to which Newton's laws might be
expected to apply at all ... i.e. particles with mass ... can move with
the speed of light.
Light behaves as both a wave and a particle in chemistry. As a wave, light exhibits properties such as interference and diffraction, while as a particle, light consists of discrete packets of energy called photons. This dual nature of light is described by the wave-particle duality principle.
Sort of. A gamma ray is a photon, which is a particle/wave moving at the speed of light, because it is light.Photons are the gauge particles for the electromagnetic force, but they don't carry an electric charge themselves.
Most likely not. Light is made up of photons, and even photons have mass..Thus light is a particle as particles are mass. But to confuse you, even though light = photons & photons = particle & particle = mass; the photons also act as a wave. Which is rather incredible, because it means that a mass also acts as a wave.
No, according to the theory of relativity, it is impossible for any particle with mass to reach or exceed the speed of light. Accelerators can increase the speed of particles to high fractions of the speed of light, but they cannot exceed it.
An electron.
No, a light wave does not act like a moving particle. Light waves exhibit properties of both waves and particles, known as wave-particle duality. In certain experiments, light behaves more like a wave, while in others, it behaves more like a particle.
Accelerate the particle but not beyond C, the speed of light Decelerate the particle Divert the particle's path.
The total energy of a particle with rest mass m and momentum p moving at a velocity close to the speed of light is given by Einstein's equation: E^2 = (pc)^2 + (mc^2)^2, where c is the speed of light. Since the particle is moving at a velocity close to light, its total energy will be dominated by its momentum term (pc)^2.
Photonneutrinoelectrona theortical particle called a tachyon, moves faster than light.
no, sound and light are very different Sound is a vibration in air, light is a particle called a photon moving through the air
A tachyon is a hypothetical subatomic particle that moves faster than light and is incapable of moving slower than the speed of light.
Special relativity is always applicable, but only really useful when you are considering objects moving close to the speed of light. General relativity should be used when objects are very heavy or dense.
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The particle nature of light is illustrated by the photoelectric effect.
Yes. Light has both particle and wave properties.
Yes, light exhibits properties of both a wave and a particle, known as wave-particle duality.
Albert Einstein's Photo-electric effect is one of the proof of the particle nature of light. The experiment on the wave particle duality is another proof pf the particle nature of light.