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Any-Broccoli-3911 t1_j6yz6xi wrote

The longest wavelength photons have less energy per photon. Radio signals have an extremely large number of photons, they are not large photons.

Any wave other than the sinusoidal wave is a combination of photons (unless they are bound, then the wavefunction of each photon is not a sinusoidal). We can do complicated waves in any wavelength we can produce large amount of photons on command, so from radio to X.

All photons combine their wave function to form a more complicated wave. They are still linearly independent and act as independent photons. The combination happens only if you check the wave which is the sum of the wave function of each photon.

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Max-Phallus OP t1_j6z4ctm wrote

Right. So photons can more accurately be described as sine wave components/properties of waveforms?

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Any-Broccoli-3911 t1_j6z60tq wrote

Yes, the photons are the sine wave component of the waveform. You can get the distribution of photon in function of frequency, wavelength, momentum or energy by taking the fourrier transform of the waveform.

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Max-Phallus OP t1_j6z839a wrote

Thank you very much. I very appreciate your time to help me understand.

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