Photon Model

 * The web is replete with lectures and articles on modern physics.  Most days I expose myself to a few of them in hopes of understanding photons, in hopes of accounting for photon formation, emission, dimensions, propagation or translation, absorption and action or effect, perhaps eventually reflection, refraction, transparence, polarization, filtering, shielding, birefringence, scattering, interference, coherence, etc.
 * An elegant mathematical model (Maxwell’s equations) predicts electromagnetic radiation, but presumed features of the predicted radiation are doubtful.  Specifically, light, heat and radio emissions are depicted as multicycle electromagnetic sine waves; but those emissions are probably half-cycle ie one-phase photons.
    1)  I doubt that multicycle photons exist, contrary to every depiction of radiation dynamics out there.  Multicycle photons are not expected from properties of their sources and do not account for the radiant effects on targets.  I doubt that they are implied in Maxwell's equations.  Misleading conceptualizations confuse, 
eg:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpGBs307qYs ,
and:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe4j144wDJo
I believe that half-cycle ie one-phase photons are expected from properties of radiant sources and half-cycle ie one-phase photons account for radiant effects.
    2)  I doubt that a radio wave is a long unitary/coherent wave of frequency matching the transmitter's.  Instead, each phase of a transmission cycle must be a shower of much shorter photons (possibly infrared) emitted from countless accelerating antenna electrons and spinning in phase-dependent directions on axes paralleling the transmitter’s antenna (transverse to the photon's trajectory).  A well known model envisions multi-photon composition of a radio-wave phase, but seems to confuse photon spin with circular polarization which isn't spin.
    3)  I suspect that photons are emitted from electrons of a radio-transmitter's antenna as they are accelerated by a pulse of electromotive force (EMF) being propagated between ends of the antenna.  This mechanism probably accounts for the fact that transmission is optimal when each branch of a dipole-antenna is 1/4 as long as the transmitted wave.  This length relation results in cooperative unimodal standing waves of EMF centered in each antenna branch).  Radio-wave photons would be much shorter than the radio waves they transmit.  Spin is the only photon characteristic that could faithfully carry radio-phase information so that alternate phases of photon showers would accelerate receiver-antenna electrons oppositely.
    4)    A radio telescope seems designed to pick up and analyze showers of ordinary-size photons rather than gigantic photons.  Conceivably, cosmic microwave background does consist of gigantic photons (postulated to be ordinary photons greatly stretched).
    5)    Considering how photons are made and act, I suspect that a photon is a disc or ring or spheroid of magnetic flux about an axis of EMF, progressing in space like a frisby (axis transverse to trajectory) not like a football or rifle bullet (axis in line with trajectory).  Unpolarized light and heat would have photon axes pointing randomly in all directions transverse to trajectory.  Polarized light and heat would have photon axes pointing mainly in two opposite directions transverse to trajectory.  Radio signals would be polarized paralleling the transmitter antenna, with photons of oppositely pointing axes sorted into phases as depicted below.

* This model can be tested and, if validated, can provide a platform to examine and understand photons in the ways listed in the first paragraph above.  After posting it, I saw that it is something like a reversed electron-spin model.
  *  In a Science Question/Answer site called Quora, under "What is the shape and volume of a photon?", Jay Wacker seems to anticipate my model:  Photons are point particles with no substructure as far as we have been able to determine.  Photons have momentum and spin, no mass or charge.  The spin is manifested in its polarization.  You can think of this as two different photons that can be interchanged by rotating them 90 degrees around the axis that they are going.

Stages of this conjecture have been published:
http://ethicsblackhole.blogspot.com/2016/11/radio-signals.html
http://ethicsblackhole.blogspot.com/2016/10/electromagnetic-radiation_7.html
http://ethicsblackhole.blogspot.com/2016/09/quantum-models.html

In a Quora article Phonse Fagan wrote:  According the writer R.W. Lam, Einstein said: ‘All the fifty years of conscious brooding have brought me no closer to answer the question, “What are light quanta?” Of course today every rascal thinks he knows the answer, but he is deluding himself.’

Gospelaires

  1.  Angel Band
  2.  The Darkest Hour is Just Before Dawn
  3.  Drifting Too Far From The Shore
  4.  In the Garden
  5.  Just a closer walk
  6.  Near the Cross
  7.  Never Grow Old Gospelaires
  8.  Old Rugged Cross
 8.  Old Rugged Cross
  9.  One Christmas Eve
10.  Over in the Gloryland Gospelaires
10.  Over in the Gloryland Gospelaires
11.  Peace in the Valley
12.  Silent empty chair
13.  Standing By the River
14.  Sweet by and by
14.  Sweet Bye and Bye
15.  Sweet Hour of Prayer
16.  Take it to the Lord in Prayer.mpg
17.  Victory in Jesus
18.  AreYouWashed
19.  Where could I go
20.  Whispering Hope
21.  Wings of a Dove
21.  Wings of a Dove

Woodmont Summer Singalong

  1.  All Smiles Tonight

  2.  Church in the Wildwood 2016 Slideshow

  3.  Woodmont Summer Singalong: Hard Times

  4.  Passages , Four Chapters of Love

  5.  Preacher and the Bear

  6.  Precious Lord Take My Hand

  7.  Repo Man

  8.  Road Trip

  9.  Travelin' the highway home

10.  Where the roses never fade




C:\Users\David Regen\Dropbox\WedSing\170712\WhatAFriendSlideShow.mpg

Second-Sunday Singalong Video Catalog

Mostly videos made by Alan Nelson in the Bellevue Christian Chruch
  1.  Amazing Grace June 11, 2017
 2.  Beyond the Sunset January 8, 2017
 3.  Church in the Wildwood  –   Slideshow
 4.  Down by the Riverside May 14, 2017 (ceiling mic present)
 5.  Drifting Too Far From the Shore
  5.  Drifting Too Far From the Shore
  6.  I Miss My Darling Mother Since She's Gone May 14, 2017
 7.  A Mansion for Me January 8, 2017 , Slide Show
  8.  Old Country Church May 10, 2015 Bellevue Christian Church
  9.  Precious Lord, Take My Hand January 8, 2017
10.  Precious Memories
11.  Rank Stranger January 8, 2017
12.  Second-Sunday Singalong 2017 Summer Slideshow
13.  Sing and Ring
14.  Will the Circle be Unbroken
15.  Where the Soul Never Dies

Environmental CO2 Effects

  *  I just spent all day reading and hearing global-temperature experts, theories, observations and explanations.  It appears that the temperature history is not explained simply by green-house gases, giving comfort to the climate deniers but not justifying dismissal as hoax.

  *  Sun variations cause significant temperature departures from green-house expectations, possibly starting a new cooling phase despite CO2 rise.  We'll have to wait to see whether mountain snow caps return, glaciers stop receding, acrtic sea ice returns, coral reefs stop bleaching, permafrost stops collapsing and releasing methane, sea levels return.

  *  The deniers seem to misunderstand ocean acidification.

  *  Think I'll stop worrying about warming but continue worrying about diminishing resources and expanding populations.

An example of numerous "hockey-stick temperature histories" can be seen at:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockey_stick_controversy

Useful explanations of global-warming dynamics are in the following 4 paragraphs from an article:  What East Anglia's E-mails Really Tell Us About Climate Change, by Peter Kelemen, in Popular Mechancs, Dec 17, 2006.  Found at:  http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a5154/4338343/

  *  For these reasons, and based on carbon isotope data, it is all but certain that the present, unprecedented rise in CO2 is due mainly to human output. But one cannot rule out with complete certainty other factors, for example, global warming itself, that could also be significantly contributing to the atmospheric CO2 increase.

  *  CO2 (and methane) in the atmosphere are nearly transparent to UV and visible radiation, but absorb in the infrared, creating a "greenhouse." If it were not for this, the surface of the Earth would be much colder. This leads to the inference that increasing CO2 will lead to increasing warmth. Also, high CO2concentration in the air leads to ocean acidification, which is probably bad for coral and perhaps also for plankton that make their shells from calcium carbonate (soluble in acid) and form the base of the ocean food chain.

  *  A good-faith effort has been made to determine average global temperature using the instrumental record, with increasing accuracy and precision as the data become more comprehensive. For sure, the average temperature of the atmosphere has been rising for most of the last 50 years. This is consistent with the greenhouse theory, though one cannot rule out with complete certainty that other factors--variation due to sunspot activity, or the last gasp of a long warming trend caused by variation in the Earth's orbit--might also be contributing to temperature change.

  *  The Arctic ice cap is getting smaller, in apparent response to this global temperature increase. Sea level is rising, due to the thermal expansion of the oceans and, increasingly, to melting of the Greenland and/or Antarctic ice caps. It has been shown to most people's satisfaction that the Greenland ice cap is getting smaller.

Growing Up Black

    Eric Brown’s Tennessee Voices column (5/24) describes indignities endured by black people in our society from preschool through job market.  White people of good will regret such discrimination and seek to minimize it.

  Mr Brown apparently navigated the convolutions of adolescence without taking any irreversible wrong turns.  He should get some satisfaction from that.  He gets my admiration.

  Racism (more broadly, tribalism) is one of many primitive drives (eg sex, acquisitiveness, aggressiveness) that were and are necessary for survival, but which are harmful in a society if not bridled by civilizing education and by law.  Patriotism, another version of tribalism, is necessary but often misappropriated.

  In my 83 years, I’ve witnessed huge advances in racial justice which may not be appreciated by young people struggling in today’s market.  We should continue this advance, continue broadening respect for each others rights.  We might even contemplate just sharing of opportunities and resources among races.

  But social relations can't be optimal.  People naturally form cruel cliques (small tribes).  These matters are addressed in Jonathan Haidt’s The Righteous Mind.

    For a bit of optimism, consider the dignity of Family Obama in the White House and the wisdom of Elijah Cummings in Congress (one generation removed from sharecropping).

My Highschool English Teacher

  * My brothers and I attended a little 100-student highschool, Duncan College Preparatory School. It was a 50'x50' three-story house.  The top story was for a never-used physics/chemistry lab and special gatherings like public-speaking class or honor clubs.  Next floor down had a library, class room, cafeteria and part of headmaster’s residence.  Main floor had another part of headmaster's residence, a large study hall and four class rooms arranged for the respect-crushing trap system.
  * The basement right contained a trough urinal tilted so one side didn't drain, two toilets with overhead reservoirs, one sink and two showers, all sharing space on a damp concrete floor with a central drain.  The basement left was a dressing room with insufficient facilities for leaving clothes during sports practice plus a dry-mud crawl space where we laid out our shoulder pads etc after practice to “dry”.  These were malodorous areas wreaking of ammonia, mildew and BO.  Occasionally in the basement, karma was balanced with a belt.
  * There was a two-car garage where athletic equipment was stacked in the off season and game uniforms between games, in addition to the headmaster’s car.  Duncan School engendered modesty, even humility; but we were proud of our motto: Vivat Veritas (let truth live).
  * All the teachers were dedicated, fair and fondly remembered by most students, few of which survive since the school closed in 1952.  Perhaps the most impactful was Benjamin Abernathy, our English teacher who made us memorize exemplary poetry.  A large group of his students celebrated his 100th birthday in Trevecca Assisted Living.  To our surprise, Mr Ab gave each of us a collection of his poetic compositions, in a book assembled by one of his distinguished students, Fred Russell.  Prior to that, we were unaware of his creative accomplishments.
  * The poem that I liked most was titled Daffodils – about items in his yard and house reminding him of his beloved wife of 60 years, deceased one year earlier.  I liked it so much that I wrote a melody and a chorus for it under the title Silent Empty Chair.  I sing it annually in late winter or early spring, when the daffodils have wilted. 

Silent Empty Chair
BH Abernathy & DM Regen  2003 

  The daffo1dils with 4love and 1care
  She set in 1clumps a5cross the 1lawn
  In natural 1scattered 4random 1way
  Have bloomed a1gain, a5gain are 1gone
  + The kindest 4heart I’ve ever 1known
-- One year a1go this very 5day
  + She closed her 1eyes at 4setting 1sun
  + Eliza1beth was 5called a1way

  Her picture 1by my 4mirror 1smiles
  No voice is 1heard no 5answered 1call
  Her little 1shoes be4side the 1bed
  No footsteps 1tread the 5darkened 1hall

  Today a 1year has 4crept a1way
  A hopeless 1and a 5lonely 1year
  Across the 1table 4facing 1me
*There sits a 1silent 5empty 1chair