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The Phat-Stupid ray (552.7345435808 nm photon)

<....gamma rays have frequencies around 300 times higher than x-rays, and quantum energies around 8000 times higher.

Type Frequencies Quantum energies

Gamma > 10^20 Hz > 1 MeV

X-rays 3 x 10^16 plus 124 eV plus



I keep thinking you're Larry J. Sorry.

We can do better than these indistinct descriptions.

The energy of a photon is proportional to its frequency.

E = h(Plancks constant) * frequency.

If a gamma ray has a frequency 500 times larger than an x-ray, then it's energy is 500 times larger, dig?

What ever you wan't to call it doesn't matter.

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