Seeing Photons in a New Light

If I asked you to picture a photon, an electromagnetic wave, I'd expect the image that popped into your head to look something like the one below, with the characteristic intertwined sine curves of the electric and magnetic field vectors. Image Credit: Wiki user P.wormer, CC BY-SA 3.0 This model of electromagnetic radiation dates back to the work of James Clerk Maxwell, whose differential equations laid the groundwork for the pre-Einsteinian understanding of electricity and magnetism, and to th...