👉 The Hughes-Light Particles, also known as light particles or photons, are fundamental entities in quantum mechanics that represent discrete packets of electromagnetic energy. Named after James Clerk Maxwell and later associated with the physicist Arthur Hugh Hughes, these particles are the quanta of light, the form of electromagnetic radiation that we perceive as light. Unlike classical particles, which can have any mass and momentum, light particles have no mass in their rest frame and exhibit wave-particle duality, behaving both as particles and waves depending on the experimental setup. They travel at the speed of light in a vacuum and carry energy proportional to their frequency, as described by Planck's equation \( E = h\nu \), where \( E \) is energy, \( h \) is Planck's constant, and \( \nu \) is the frequency of the light. These particles are crucial in explaining phenomena such as the photoelectric effect and the behavior of atoms and molecules at the quantum level.
