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Originally Posted by morls
Thanks Alex, but now I have more questions...
If a photon is a type of elementary particle, how can it have frequency? I can understand the idea that a stream of photons may have a frequency of striking a surface, but how can a single, massless particle have frequency?
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Hi Stephen,
Through a mind-boggling attribute called wave-particle duality.
See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave%E...rticle_duality
There is a classical experiment called the double-slit experiment that
demonstrates it dramatically.
See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment
It is an experiment that is relatively easy to do and is staple of
high school physics classes.
See :-
https://indico.cern.ch/event/193928/...nario-CERN.pdf