diff --git a/photon.md b/photon.md index ca9a12125..5935f2596 100644 --- a/photon.md +++ b/photon.md @@ -3,4 +3,6 @@ - "…two photons, as seen by a single observer, differ in direction of motion, in energy and in polarisation". - "If we were moving with rapid acceleration toward a wireless station, its photons would appear to possess increasing amounts of energy, and would pass over the whole spectral scale through the visible and into the ultraviolet" - "Even so fundamental a process as the flow of heat must involve two factors, the amount of energy and the number of photons transferred" -- > The name photon derives from the Greek word for light, [[φῶς]] (transliterated phôs). +- From Wikipedia: + - > The name photon derives from the Greek word for light, [[φῶς]] (transliterated phôs). + - > Although Wolfers's and Lewis's theories were contradicted by many experiments and never accepted, the new name was adopted by most physicists very soon after Compton used it.