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View submission: Two questions about light waves
Is this accurate?
Light has wave properties. As seen by an inertial observer, the waveform is determined by the accelerations of the electric charges giving rise to the light.
So an electric charge which is accelerating in harmonic oscillations emits light with sinusoidal waveform.
I want to depict a typical photon as perpendicular sine waves in phase with equal amplitude, representing the changing electric and magnetic field strength as the photon passes through space.
As far as I know, the only thing different about this proposed diagram from scores of others I've seen is that I am explicitly saying that the diagram represents a single photon.
Would anything be wrong or misleading about that?
There's nothing here!