jc456
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power is energy per unit of time.This is the fourth time you said that. Again photons contain energy not power.And the power contained in the photon, derived by it's frequency or state of excitement, determines its overall mass
If you took QM 101 you would know that a photon in transit acts like a wave with diffraction properties, etc.Again, is a photon a particle or a wave? Or is it a combination of a Particle within a wave?
And a photon interaction with matter results in a discrete transfer of energy where the photon disappears. It is that interaction that is quantized and thus has a particle nature.
Simple statement: moving photon is wave. Photon hitting something is particle.
The math: The formula for a specific configuration is set up in the Hamiltonian operator. The eigenvalues of the Hamiltonian gives the discrete set of energy levels.
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