* I might be happier, if I could understand the interactions among elemental particles and between such particles and space associated with emission and absorption of photons. I wonder:
* Why don’t an atom’s electrons fall into its nucleus? What geometric or mechanical change of an atom’s electron is associated with emission or absorption of a photon? Is it a change in orbital radius or could it be a change in orbital vibration?
* Reading between the lines, I suspect that every photon has the same composition (a common number of wave cycles, 1 or n, or 1 pulse) and that the wave or pulse of every photon has the same amplitude. Accordingly, a photon of twice the energy has twice the frequency and half the length -- or something like that.
* Photons are not quantized, except by virtue of their emission and absorption dynamics, unless we can believe inflationary and relativistic red shifts to be quantized.
* It should be fun to imagine the composition and dynamics of antenna-emitted radio waves, these being generated from innumerable jerky electrons being accelerated phasically in opposite directions. The photon conglomerate presumably disperses during inverse-square spreading. Would such photons have odd shapes? Since they induce corresponding oscillations in receiving antennae, they must retain information about the direction of electrons that produced them. A corollary is that photons are pulses, not waves. A wave shouldn't retain such directional information.
* The microwave background consists of very-low-frequency photons. I recon that the microwaves of a radar or oven are not photons but are conglomerates of higher-frequency photons, perhaps longer IR photons, which cooperate in driving electrons in a target antenna or food alternately in opposite directions at microwave frequency. The retention of directional information is easier explained if photons are pulses, not waves.
* The finding that electrons (having electric and magnetic fields) interfere in the double-slit experiment may not prove that particles per se have wave character. However, a similar result with neutrons seems convincing, though mysterious. Could it be that the fields of opposite charges in a neutron do not cancel but extend side by side throughout space?
* How can I reconcile my deterministic convictions with probabilistic particle behavior?
* What data support detailed electron orbital models?
Reply to David Regen at xms@bellsouth.net
I started a conversation thread at Physics Forum
Key-word links
Planck Blackbody Quantized Light Wave/Particle Duality
deBroglie Bohr Atom Structure EnergyOrbits DoubleSlitInterferance MatterDuality
History of quantum theory, John Bell Entanglement Test Einstein vs Bohr
Entanglement John Bell –> Experimental Test Quantum Computer
Microwave background from Big Bang Plasma Orange to Red to Microwave shift
Edge of Universe (Observable) Particle Horizon Inflating Space Red Shift to Oblivion 4-D Curved Univ
Electron Wavelength Orbit = Standing Wave
Mass of Energy m = E / c^2 Combined parts have less mass than sum of singles ; Potential Energy can be neg
Space-Time Causality in 4D Space ; s.i. = (dx)^2 - (c dt)^2 future already exists
Physics Photon dimensions
PhysicsForums Size of photon particle
ResearchGate What is the cross section size of a photon?
RP Photonics Encyclopedia Length of a Photon
ScienceForums Does a photon have physical volume or geometrical size?
Photon Energy vs Frequency
Double-slit diffraction of neutrons
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