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Daniel · 9 answers · 2y

What do you imagine a photon to look like?

Usually I am very aware that the concept of looking like breaks down when we talk about photons. If I need to visualise it, however, I usually just think about white little balls travelling through space or some sort of diffuse wave like space-time region.

I'm not sure photons actually exist, since they're everywhere at once until they're detected.

like if a pixel could move ... it's always funny to me when I'm watching some sci-fi like Star Trek and they have photon torpedos and tachyon beams and shit and the beams seem to move slower than your dad's Buick, anyway...

A photon looks like a corkscrew to me. Or like a sine wave on the screen of a scope. Haha.

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