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Definition of Photons
1. photon [n] - See also: photon
Medical Definition of Photons
1. Discrete concentrations of energy, apparently massless elementary particles, that move at the speed of light. They are the unit or quantum of electromagnetic radiation. Photons are emitted when electrons move from one energy state to another. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Photons
Literary usage of Photons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mathematical Statistics and Applications: Festschrift for Constance Van Eeden by Constance van Eeden, Marc Moore, Sorana Froda, Christian Léger (2003)
"Coincidence probabilities for entangled photons The two photons in the Aspect
experiment have in some sense exactly equal polarization. ..."
2. The Modern Revolution in Physics by Benjamin Crowell (2003)
"There can only be whole numbers of photons: four photons in figure h/3, ...
A wrong interpretation: photons interfering with each other One possible ..."
3. Proceedings of the Sixth Meeting of the Task Force on Shielding Aspects of by OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (2004)
"photons of lower energies accompany low-energy neutron interactions and ...
At higher TOF the average generation increases rapidly as these photons are ..."
4. Transcendence of the Western Mind by Samuel Avery (2003)
"The world, at least as we see it, comes to us in the form of photons. Descartes would
say that there is something behind the photons making them come to us ..."
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