Let's say you have a very high-energy photon whose wavelength is slightly LONGER than the Planck length (~1.6 * 10^-35 m). An object moves toward the photon, so that from the object's POV the photon gets blueshifted so that its wavelength is now LESS THAN the Planck length.
What will happen when the photon meets the object? Will the photon interact with it, briefly forming a quantum black hole with the atom or particle it strikes? Or, since the photon's wavelength is now in the "meaningless to measure" range from the object's frame of reference, would the photon not interact with the object at all, passing thru it like a neutrino? Or something else?
2006-09-06
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