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Luis, The Bunch Of Energy Atoms Receive Is Called Photon.

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Posted by Alexander on January 6, 2002 18:45:11 UTC

By definition, states of energy of e/m field are called photons. Indeed, energy of e/m field was experimentally observed to have discrete states - and many times since photoeffect was discovered.

You probably use the word "photon" for some other phenomenon than scientists do.

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