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Relationship between photons and magnetic field?
A magnetic field can redirect light, does that mean light can effect a magnetic field?
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Isn't a laser using a magnetic field to direct photons?
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Photons do not couple directly to other photons, so light doesn't couple much to external EM fields (or other light).
Therefore, to lowest (and next-to-lowest) order, light neither effects nor is effected by magnetic and electromagnetic fields.
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