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Creative way to write about a photon

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ddviper

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My professor has told us all to write a story about the life of a photon and its journey to earth. But he doesn't want it to be the whole boring scientific paper, he wants it to be something we'll remember. So he told us to be as creative as you can, as there is no limit to the length of the paper.

I was thinking about re-writing the lyrics to Don?t Stop Believin? by Journey.

Any other ideas or thoughts? This creativity thing is not my style 😛
 
What the heck, is this quantum physics or quantum fiction?

Depending on where that photon came from, it's going to be an exciting birth, followed by a really long and boring trip, and them SMACK right into an atom, most likely absorbed and turned into heat or an electrical impulse.

I think that it can take tens of thousands of years for a photon to get from the inner part of a star to the outside, due to being constantly absorbed and re-emitted by the dense particles of matter. But is it the same photon each time? Or is the photon's own existence over as soon as it is absorbed? Don't know, but if the latter is true, your story will be quite short. 🙂
 
A photon is a unit of excitation of the electromagnetic field. Get that in your story somehow and you can show him up.
 
Originally posted by: mfs378
A photon is a unit of excitation of the electromagnetic field. Get that in your story somehow and you can show him up.
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Sounds like that's made for The Beach Boys "Good Vibrations."
 
Try to work this in:

"Photons deliver electromagnetic radiation of all wavelengths. But you can't just dump a lot of radiating particles down a laser beam. A laser beam is a series of photons not unlike a tube. It is not a big truck. It is a series of light packets, packets that have no mass or charge. And if you don't understand, lasers can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your photons in, it gets in line and it's gong to be delayed by anyone that puts into that stream enormous amounts of photons, enormous amounts of photons."
 
just write the bionic woman story, but substitute a photon for jamie summers


be sure to include the "nannananannaananan" sound effect
 
Originally posted by: Jeff7
What the heck, is this quantum physics or quantum fiction?

Depending on where that photon came from, it's going to be an exciting birth, followed by a really long and boring trip, and them SMACK right into an atom, most likely absorbed and turned into heat or an electrical impulse.

I think that it can take tens of thousands of years for a photon to get from the inner part of a star to the outside, due to being constantly absorbed and re-emitted by the dense particles of matter. But is it the same photon each time? Or is the photon's own existence over as soon as it is absorbed? Don't know, but if the latter is true, your story will be quite short. 🙂
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Write a journal, start with the exciting birth, fill in 25 pages of "nothing happened today", followed by SMACK
 
Originally posted by: Turin39789
Originally posted by: Jeff7
What the heck, is this quantum physics or quantum fiction?

Depending on where that photon came from, it's going to be an exciting birth, followed by a really long and boring trip, and them SMACK right into an atom, most likely absorbed and turned into heat or an electrical impulse.

I think that it can take tens of thousands of years for a photon to get from the inner part of a star to the outside, due to being constantly absorbed and re-emitted by the dense particles of matter. But is it the same photon each time? Or is the photon's own existence over as soon as it is absorbed? Don't know, but if the latter is true, your story will be quite short. 🙂
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Write a journal, start with the exciting birth, fill in 25 pages of "nothing happened today", followed by SMACK
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Then, the photon sees a telescope up ahead - the tunnel at the end of the light.
 
Originally posted by: Jeff7
Originally posted by: Turin39789
Originally posted by: Jeff7
What the heck, is this quantum physics or quantum fiction?

Depending on where that photon came from, it's going to be an exciting birth, followed by a really long and boring trip, and them SMACK right into an atom, most likely absorbed and turned into heat or an electrical impulse.

I think that it can take tens of thousands of years for a photon to get from the inner part of a star to the outside, due to being constantly absorbed and re-emitted by the dense particles of matter. But is it the same photon each time? Or is the photon's own existence over as soon as it is absorbed? Don't know, but if the latter is true, your story will be quite short. 🙂
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Write a journal, start with the exciting birth, fill in 25 pages of "nothing happened today", followed by SMACK
Click to expand...
Then, the photon sees a telescope up ahead - the tunnel at the end of the light.
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Brilliant!

 
Oh yellow stream of energized particles, issuing forth into the cosmos from your incandescent fusion miracle. Your journey is long, but speedily you move towards that tiny blue dot in the cosmos. Slowly it grows into a azure marble and suddenly it seems it is approaching all too fast. Your odyssey nears it's end as you enter the atmosphere of this blue and green mottled planet. Some of your friends disappear as they are absorbed by the many layers of air and moisture that are all around. You travel on, finally reaching your ultimate destination and destiny...and you smack into the hairy fat ass of a 300lb man sunning himself in the buff on the French Riviera.

The End
 
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