Answer by Andrew Steane for If the probability of a point (photon) hitting...
In popular presentations of particle physics you often find the statement that photons and electrons are "point particles", while protons and other composite entities are not. However to call a photon...
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Answer by Tachyon for If the probability of a point (photon) hitting another...
The photon interacts with the electron, but it does not collide with it.You can think of an electron as having a cloud of virtual particles, which are basically excitations in the quantum EM field. The...
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If the probability of a point (photon) hitting another point (electron) is zero why do they collide? To have a probability greater than zero almost one of them should be not a point. Correct me, please...
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To have a probability greater than zero almost one of them should be not a point.In classical mechanics, when one models charged particles as point particles, their center of mass (CM) being the point,...
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