So if we split a photon?

Question

What would happen of sting level? Would we rip a sting in two?

Answer 1

Photons cannot be split.

Answer 2

You would just have two photons of lesser energy I think, photons are just packets of energy at a wavelength.  As long as this is not a "quanta" energy (minimum possible), it could certainly be split

Answer 3

Photon structure (a la Wiki):

According to Quantum Chromodynamics, a real photon can interact both as a point-like particle, or as a collection of quarks and gluons, i.e., like a hadron. The structure of the photon is determined not by the traditional valence quark distributions as in a proton, but by fluctuations of the point-like photon into a collection of partons.

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I think we oughta keep in mind that these are mathemateical tools we are using to describe these events in nature. Sometimes we have to use the "wave" nature of light, sometimes the "particle" nature - but this doesn't not means we should treat the mathematical construct as completely describing light. For now light is either a pointparticle, wave, or a collection of hadrons - the last set invovling strings. But this is just a glimpse of how we see light interacting with different things.

Answer 4

aren't photons just packets of energy? how are you supposed to split energy?

Answer 5

A photon is a quanta of light energy. It more resembles a wave than a particle.  You can't really split a wave.  

Are you talking about a proton?