In reply to William Beaty's message of Fri, 26 Mar 2021 03:06:23 -0700 (PDT): Hi,
My thoughts:- Since photons travel at the speed of light, if special relativity is correct, then in their own reference frame, they travel no distance, and it takes no time. Hence transmission & absorption occur concurrently and without any separation distance. This may explain the "full energy dump". BTW the full energy is not always dumped. Consider the Compton effect. > >I missed the fact that Dr. John Cramer here in UW physics, has recently >teamed up with Carver Mead (of the "Collective Electrodynamics" book,) for >some optical-bench photon experiments. > >Go see this: > > > https://www.geekwire.com/2020/physics-professor-tackles-one-mystery-quantum-mechanics-times-flow/ > > ...Mechanism of WaveFunction Collapse 8/2020 > https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.11365.pdf > >It's all about sharply-resonant oscillators (atoms) which can suddenly >"dump" all their energy, yet have it entirely go to just one distant, >identical atom, rather than spreading tiny bits to many atoms. The key is >some interference patterns with time-reversed EM waves, the effect causing >two distant atoms to "agree" to the full energy-dump (which was also RP >Feynman's first professional physics, w/adviser JA Wheeler.) > >So, there are no photons after all, just EM waves? > >ALso, here's Cramer's recent column in 1/2021 issue of Analog SF mag: > > Wave Function Collapse Revealed > https://www.npl.washington.edu/av/altvw210.html > > > 9/2001 Carver Mead interview > http://worrydream.com/refs/Mead%20-%20American%20Spectator%20Interview.html > >John Cramer is famous for his unpopular non-Schrodinger, non-Copenhagan QM >theory called > "Transactional Interpretation of QM." > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_interpretation > > > >(((((((((((((((((( ( ( ( ( (O) ) ) ) ) ))))))))))))))))))) >William J. Beaty SCIENCE HOBBYIST website >billb at amasci com http://amasci.com >EE/programmer/sci-exhibits amateur science, hobby projects, sci fair >Seattle, WA 206-762-3818 unusual phenomena, tesla coils, weird sci Regards, Robin van Spaandonk <mixent...@aussiebroadband.com.au>
