Is 1 photon analagous to one wavelength of the magnetic /electric waves?
A photon is a quantum of energy that has two types of wave: wave functions and group waves. Each photon has a wave function, which is like a probability density cloud surrounding the photon. That photon can be anywhere in that cloud, but it’s most likely to be found where the cloud is the densest. When photons travel as a group, like from the same source, they undulate as they travel. This forms the group waves, which are sort of like the ripples on the surface of a pond where the water molecules are sort of like the photons for group waves. As luck and physics would have it, we can write E = hf; where E is the photon’s energy level, h is Planck’s constant, and f is the frequency of the oscillations for the group waves. Further, we can write C = fL where C is light speed in a vacuum, f is that same frequency, and L is the length of each group wave. It’s this L that is the train car. And it’s C that is the speed of the train. So to find the number of cars (wavelengths) that pass in a un
