25 Jul '16 15:13>
Originally posted by humyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon
Both of those things is now exactly what I strongly suspect. I now plan to later dig up all the relevant equations (from my university courses and I have forgotten these relevant equations ) and see if I can do all the calculations and check that that is all exactly right.
If that is exactly right, then you were right in suggesting the velocity imparted by the photons may be greater than what I would think.
Energy, frequency and momentum are essentially all the same equation. In fact you could say that its energy entirely consists of momentum. They are just different units for the same thing.
So, if you have an object moving in the opposite direction to a photon, it is impacted with greater momentum just as it would with a more conventional particle.