Photon Doppler Effect Doesn't Exist
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Can it be true that the photon energy can “randomly increase or decrease everywhere at anytime”? If you believe in the Doppler Effect for a photon, then, yes the photon energy is randomly changing, as shown by Rongqing Dai’s thought experiment [i]. This supposed anomaly comes from the fact that a photon energy, modeled by Quantum Mechanics, can increase or decrease when a photon, emitted by a source, is measured by a moving vessel coming to or going away from the source. Indeed, if interpreted by the Doppler Effect, which says that the returned frequency by the moving vessel can increase or decrease depending on the sign of the relative velocity with the source, then effectively this leads to an absurdity for the conservation of energy of a photon and/or Quantum Mechanics modeling of photon energy. Then, which is untrue, the law of conservation of energy, the Quantum Mechanics modeling or the Doppler Effect for a photon? This anomaly of the energy in the life of a photon is explained in this paper simply by the fact that there can’t be any Doppler Effect for a light photon! [i] An Energy Dilemma Created When Quantum Physics Started. December 2025. Rongqing Dai. DOI:10.13140/RG.2.2.15188.26249/4. LicenseCC BY 4.0.
Author: Viel, Didier
Language: English
Subfield: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7140450743
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