It also connects with a "secret" taught in graduate-level physics, where
instead all the undergrads are only taught some traditional "Lies to
Children" (also sometimes called 'physics misconceptions.')
The "lie" here is the idea that photons exist; that photons are like
little grains of sand flying through space. Little tiny billiard-balls
which excite atoms by crashing into them. Light is photons, and light
waves are a delusion.
FINALLY someone complained...
There are no particles, there are only fields
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1204/1204.4616.pdf
Photons, as commonly conceived, don't exist. Only EM quanta exist. All
the undergrad physics text are lying to you.
If we properly taught this, we'd have to tell students that half of
quantum physics also applies to simple radio circuitry ...that Stimulated
Emission and Rabi-flopping aren't about photons, and that laser physics
can be duplicated with an array of LC tank circuits. (Noooooooo! Lasers
GOTTA be QM, pure particle physics, not just some embarrassing old Ben
Franklin static electricity stuff, or like dusty radio tube-receivers from
back before FM was invented!! )
If... if lasers are just wave-mechanics, that requires that all the grad
students would need to ACTUALLY LEARN all that physics stuff in Griffiths,
rather than just temporarily memorizing it for the exam, then ignoring it
all.
Hitler encounters the Jackson text
https://youtu.be/mm-4PltMB2A
On Sat, 27 Mar 2021, Robin wrote:
In reply to William Beaty's message of Fri, 26 Mar 2021 03:06:23 -0700 (PDT):
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.
...Mechanism of WaveFunction Collapse 8/2020
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.11365.pdf
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