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What is the interplay between radiation and photon creation?
While trying to provide an answer to this question, a question popped into my mind. When a charge accelerates, is there always a photon associated with that radiation, or multiple photons? For ...
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Can Two Electromagnetic waves cancel each other if it 180 degree phase moving in same direction?
If we can send two electromagnetic waves -180 degree out of phase- in same direction, then the interaction of this wave with air molecules will be less due to the low intensity of the combination. So,...
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What is electromagnetic radiation (when it is not a 'wave' of EM fields or interacting locally as a photon)? [closed]
My questions are related to the question asked at Are EM radiation and EM waves the same thing?. My background is in math (my Ph.D. thesis was in geometric analysis), and I have only taken basic ...