This is my first time posting here, I am a school student who is just curious. So today I was wondering about how light works and how it travels, and this thought came to my mind:
Light is made of photons traveling in transversal waves, doesn't this mean that photons are moving in longer distances than light itself because photons don't move in a straight line, while taking the same time that light does to reach the same position, so does this mean that the speed of photons is actually greater than the speed of light?
Best Answer
The thing that "waves" in the electromagnetic wave is not the position of the photon, it's the strength of the electric field.
Ignoring diffraction effects, the light wave moves in a straight line.