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    How to detect EM waves with wavelengh smaler than 10 exp -35 meters (Planck dimensio?

    I would like to know if it is possible to detect, mesure and register EM waves smalles than 10 exp -35 meters of wavelengh?

    If it is, how we could do, and the problems we could have.

    If not, which is the smaller EM wave we can detect, mesure and register nowadyas?
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    Seeing that a single photon with a wavelength of 10-35m will have the energy equivalent of about 400 pounds of TNT, detecting it is not going to be the problem.
    Surviving it is going to be the problem.
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    I think up to now gamma rays of ~10 TeV (~ 1013 eV) have been observed.
    Your wavelength corresponds to an energy of 1029 eV, 16 orders or magnitude more.
    I am sure one could make detectors that can measure these, however, you would first have to come up with a mechanism to generate these kind of waves.
    I am sure, however, that they would have a very small life time, though, when they interact with a particle or a field, there is a big chance they will create particles (e.g. pair creation).
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    Seeing that the energy is the equivalent to 223 µg (from e=mc[sup]2[sup]) mass, pair creation is a near certainty from interaction with anything whatsoever meaning you won't detect the photon itself, you'll observer a massive shower of highly energetic particles, which in an atmosphere of any substance would result in quite a large explosion from the instantly heated air.
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