What are the physical differences between fusion generated light(sunlight) and electric light (from a bulb)?

Question

Are the photons different somehow? Are the waves or particles different?

Answer 1

The spectrum and intensity/magnitude. The photons themselves are the same animals otherwise.

Answer 2

There are no physical differences between a photon generated by a nuclear fusion reaction and a photon generated by any other source of reaction, whether chemical, electrical or physical. You may as well ask what the difference is between the calcium generated (In this context, collected by the human body through a chemical reaction) by the human body and the calcium generated by sea coral. No difference because it is elementary.

A photon is a descriptor for an elementary particle in the electromagnetic spectrum that has no mass, travelling at c (Approx 3x10^8 m/s) and known as a quanta for having properties as both a wave and a particle. They are all identical according to the Bose-Einstein model of a photon.

The only differences between a fusion/fission generated photon and an electrically generated photon are the methods employed in the generation, and the amount of other elementary particles generated as a by-product.

Answer 3

Both are black-body radiators, producing a continuous spectrum of light. Sunlight has a higher color temperature than most incandescent lights, so it has more ultraviolet, and also has a spectrum with some dark absorption lines superimposed on it. The only properties a photon can have are wavelength and polarization, and neither source is polarized. So solar photons are just like any other photons, there are just a lot more of them.

Answer 4

Nope. Same thing, generated the same way, by heating up atoms of matter until the electrons vibrate. Matter of fact, all electromagnetic radiation is the same, everything from the radiation from your power cord to visible light to gamma rays; all of it's the same thing.