How to Use photon in a Sentence

photon

noun
  • The same math would turn out to work for more than just photons.
    — Matt Von Hippel, Quanta Magazine, 23 June 2025
  • The problem is that photons are not all equal.
    — New Atlas, 13 Apr. 2026
  • On a bright, sunny day, there’s a wealth of photons to go around.
    — Asher Elbein, WIRED, 2 Mar. 2025
  • Its qubits can be fashioned of many things, such as ions, photons, and atoms.
    — Byadrian Cho, science.org, 22 Feb. 2023
  • That doesn't tell me if my photons are being absorbed or not.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 5 June 2019
  • The medium was so dense that photons could not move freely within it.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 23 May 2026
  • If all goes well, the first light photons will enter the camera in the spring.
    — Ethan Baron, The Mercury News, 22 May 2024
  • But with electrons reined in, photons could shoot out through the cosmos.
    — The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 30 Jan. 2025
  • Both electrons and positrons have a small mass unlike photons, which have no mass.
    — Aristos Georgiou, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2018
  • In fact, the researchers show that the photons are what physicists call squeezed.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 8 Nov. 2017
  • The process of making a photon is like setting a swing in motion.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 20 Dec. 2018
  • In the case of a photon, for which m=0, the equation boils down to E=pc.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 8 Apr. 2021
  • The larger the space, the more ways a photon can occupy that space.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 15 May 2026
  • This time the probe photon’s route would be split into three by partial mirrors.
    — Philip Ball, Scientific American, 21 May 2018
  • Li suspects that the paddle shape doesn’t collect as many photons as a fan shape.
    — Quanta Magazine, 10 June 2026
  • Our eyes have evolved to be exquisitely sensitive to these photons.
    — Tim Folger, Discover Magazine, 24 Oct. 2018
  • But once the infrastructure is in place, gusts and photons are free.
    — Shaun McKinnon, AZCentral.com, 4 Nov. 2025
  • But once the infrastructure is in place, gusts and photons are free.
    — Joan Meiners, AZCentral.com, 27 Oct. 2025
  • When hit by photons, the dots emit electrons that flow across the graphene sheet to produce a current.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Simply put, just like photons are quantized light waves, phonons are quantized sound waves.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 30 Mar. 2026
  • In this experiment, the photons pass through the slits.
    — Paul Sutter, Space.com, 20 Dec. 2025
  • Put simply, a mode describes how a photon can spread out and occupy a space.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 15 May 2026
  • But in the void of space, even the tiny kick of a photon becomes a powerful engine.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Scientists have long hoped photons could solve this problem.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 16 May 2026
  • But rewinding the state of the universe plus an extra photon creates a glitch.
    — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The team made use of optical chips with channels that allowed photons to pass through.
    — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 10 July 2023
  • Solar sails, on the other hand, are powered by photons emitted by the sun.
    — Elijah Wolfson, Time, 26 July 2019
  • This leads to a subtle shift in the frequency of emitted photons.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 21 Mar. 2026
  • In the bizarre world of quantum mechanics, electrons and photons can be in two states at once.
    — Arthur Herman, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Remember, all of this is after the photon has already hit the screen.
    — Paul Sutter, Space.com, 20 Dec. 2025

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