Now do the shortest possible wavelength
Comment on Can you have an infinitely long wavelength of light? Or is there some maximum?
syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days ago
A wave with an infinitely long period isn’t really recognizable as a wave. It’d just be interpreted as a flat line anywhere in the universe. And as mentioned, the energy of light is tied to its frequency: E = hf
. (Or with hbar • omega, but that’s just multiplied with and divided by 2π, so, the same thing.)
So an infinitely long wave would have f=0 and thus no energy.
The highest frequency you’d get would be 1/planck-time, so the energy would be the Planck constant divided by Planck time, which would be roughly 12.3 GJ. That’s a lot of energy for just one photon, but if it’s just the one, likely not world-ending.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 5 days ago
4am@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
If I’m not mistaken, their last paragraph describes this to contrast the answer above about the longest (I.e. lowest) frequency.
Burnoutdv@feddit.org 5 days ago
I really love when physic estimates end with “probably not world ending”