Dissociation of the Water Molecule

[HeairBear]

let's Wikify...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon

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The modern concept of the photon was developed gradually by Albert Einstein to explain experimental observations that did not fit the classical wave model of light. In particular, the photon model accounted for the frequency dependence of light's energy, and explained the ability of matter and radiation to be in thermal equilibrium. It also accounted for anomalous observations, including the properties of black body radiation, that other physicists, most notably Max Planck, had sought to explain using semiclassical models, in which light is still described by Maxwell's equations, but the material objects that emit and absorb light are quantized. Although these semiclassical models contributed to the development of quantum mechanics, further experiments proved Einstein's hypothesis that light itself is quantized; the quanta of light are photons.

[HeairBear]

Wikification to the 2nd power...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave

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A wave is a disturbance that propagates through space and time, usually with transference of energy. A mechanical wave is that which propagates through a medium due to the restoring forces it produces upon deformation. There also exist waves capable of traveling through vacuum, including electromagnetic radiation and probably[1] gravitational radiation. Waves travel and transfer energy from one point to another, often with little or no permanent displacement of the particles of the medium (that is, with little or no associated mass transport); they consist instead of oscillations around almost fixed locations.

[TheNOP]

and your point is ?

i asked what they were to you.
not to paste me what some else said they were.

[HeairBear]

I'm just answering your questions to the best of my ability. I'm not sure what you are getting at either, that's my point. Sort of...

[TheNOP]

I'm just answering your questions to the best of my ability. I'm not sure what you are getting at either, that's my point. Sort of...

nevermind, probably just an other assumption i was making because of your question here:

Is light a wave or a particle?

i was thinking that you knew someting i was not aware of by asking that question after your comment on light speed.

note that the speed of light and the possibility of going faster then it are 2 different things.
the possibility of going faster then light does not imply that the speed of light is not approximately 300,000 km per second under normal circumstances.