Maybe this is a stupid question, but I dont understand what force is driving photons in light beams to go up and down, making a sine wave. How often in which it oscillates determines the frequency yeah, but why does it do that in the first place? And why is it that when light is emitted, instead of scattering like individual particles, the photons stay in a line. Like there’s a force that is keeping them in a straight line, and theres a force causing them to oscillate. Maybe they arent forces, but I just don’t get it.
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The latest theory of our universe is not very intuitive (in fact, downright weird). Everything (and that is literally everything) is made out of waves. What we see as “matter”, atoms, etc are built out of things that are essentially waves. And these are not tangible or physical waves – these are waves of probability.
So there are a lot of things that are difficult to really understand. Photons are waves, so are electrons, and protons and neutrons are made out of quarks which are described by their wave functions.
Ultimately, it isn’t only light that is described by a wave but EVERYTHING is described by a wave function.
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