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Old 01-06-2014, 01:07 PM
Renato1 (Renato)
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It helps to remember the duality in the nature of light. Under some circumstances it acts as a wave, and under others it acts as particle.

So in your example, it has to travel at the speed of light. And the energy in a photon is very small.
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