Very High Frequency Eletromagnetic Radiation

[EDBBOB]

Hello everybody,

 

This is my first post, so let me start with a very simple question:

 

What do we call Eletromagnetic Radiation, with a higher frequency / lower wavelength than Gamma Rays?

 

(I need it for my photographic imaging of atoms... :))

 

Thanks in advance

 

Best regards

 

EDBBOB

[Tormod]

I don't think there is a classification for radiation with a higher frequency than gamma rays. But I may be very wrong...

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_ray

[Turtle]

Hello everybody,

 

This is my first post, so let me start with a very simple question:

 

What do we call Eletromagnetic Radiation, with a higher frequency / lower wavelength than Gamma Rays?

 

(I need it for my photographic imaging of atoms... :))

 

Thanks in advance

 

Best regards

 

EDBBOB

 

it is still called gamma radiation. :shrug:

[EDBBOB]

Thanks :) I should have read the article on Wiki first. I will do that now...

 

I must say though, that the answer reminds me of the story in Hawking's Universe with "It's turtles all the way down", if you remember that.

 

I was refreshing my memory, by watching Steven Pollock's excellent lectures on Particle Physics. He said that you can't take a picture of an atom, because the wavelength of visible light is too long. But that raised the thought in my mind, about cranking up the frequency of the light, since there seems to be no theoretical limit to that, except for your energy source.

 

Thanks again.

 

I will be back with some more philosophical question on dimensions soon.

 

Best regards

 

EDBBOB

[Qfwfq]

But that raised the thought in my mind, about cranking up the frequency of the light, since there seems to be no theoretical limit to that, except for your energy source.

When the wavelength gets that short, the energy (and momentum) is so whopping high that the poor little atom can get hurt real bad. It is, in a sense, what happens in Deep Inelastic Scattering.