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Do photons bump into each other?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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Starwars Cross Over?

I always wondered when i watched those light saber battles, i thought, how does that work? I don't know who's got a bitter grasp on the quantum fields. Light is really weird. It has energy, it has momentum, but it doesn't have any mass. And of course, it can influence our world because of that energy. In that momentum, a lazier will deposit a lot of energy in a very small spot and burn right through it. Like, if you shoot a lazer, it's going to burn a hole through your wall, right? And you can even use light to push a solar cell, to push a spaceship off of the solar system. Exactly

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