The Photon and Subatomic Particles (original) (raw)

The thrust of this attempt to explain the vagaries of subatomic particles centers about the photon, a quantum of electromagnetic radiation, which is not only the substance of electromagnetic radiation, but is ubiquitous in the study of the particles. It wasn't until Max Planck came up with a solution to his problem with black body radiation that the hidden nature of photons began to be revealed. His problem found a solution when it was supposed that the electromagnetic radiation traveled about as quantized packets, which were named "photons." It was this "quantization" that proved to be the solution to the problem.