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Can an infinite frequency or a wavelength = 0 photon exist? What about a photon with negative a wavelength?

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Can an infinite frequency or a wavelength = 0 photon exist? What about a photon with negative a wavelength?

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  1. There's no known way for a photon to have a zero or negative wavelength, or a zero or infinite frequency.  There is no known upper limit to the wavelength of a photon.  Any relevant limits would be quantum limits.


  2. Nope.

    Energy is dependent on frequency.

    If frequency was infinite then all the energy in the universe would be in a single photon.

    Likewise you can't have negative energy.

    It's like a divide by 0 type thing. Of course there's something buzzing in string theory about it relating it to the Big Bang but who cares about that.

  3. Infinite frequency suggests infinite energy, so you have to ask "What could give it that much energy?"

    A photon whose frequency died out altogether would probably not be classed as a photon as it could no longer be polarized.

    What's a negative wavelength?

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