The best analogy I can think of is stick-shift car with no clutch; one where you can pop it out of gear easily, but the RPMS have to be matched perfectly with the transmission to put it back into gear, to where an energy transfer can take place again.
In the case of a photon emission/absorption in an atom, it would be like upshifting a gear.. Say from 1st to 2nd. You could press in the clutch and release the flywheel from the transmission, but you will have to let the RPMs of the motor drop, and the RPM of the flywheel and the transmission will have to be exactly identical to slide it into gear. The flywheel in this analogy is the speed of light (electrostatic information propagation), because its normal tendancy is to go faster (when upshifting)... We have to drop the speed of light to match the speed of sound, which in this case is the RPMS of the transmission. When they match perfectly, you can slide the atom into gear (drop of the electron), and a photon is emitted (which would be the power delivered to the road by the wheels/transmission, in our analogy). And for absorption, its the same type of thing. Come to think of it, an atom is a helluva lot like a transmission. I think that's more accurate. Peace. On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 6:53 PM, seattle truth <[email protected]>wrote: > Wait, I said that wrong too... It's more complicated. The rate of change of > the electrostatic fields of the protons and electrons (because of the zero > point oscillation of the nucleons) has to match the speed of electrostatic > information propagation. > > So the electrostatic wave propagation is the wave, normally it goes to > fast. It has to be slowed to the rate of the change in the electric field, > which in turn is the zero point vibration / speed of sound in the nucleous. > > LOL I'm not sure which is the surfer, and which is the wave. The analogy > with the surfer isn't a direct one, because in that case the surfer is > speeding up to catch the wave. In the atom, the light is slowing down to > match the speed of mechanical waves in the nuclous. But when they match the > lost energy of the electrostatic fields can be converted to the photon. And > it needs to be 100% match or else energy isn't converted. > > I'll try to think of a truer analogy... > > Peace. > > > On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 6:41 PM, seattle truth <[email protected]>wrote: > >> No. You got it mixed up. The speed of electrostatic information >> propagation between the electrons and protons are the wave. >> >> >> The photon is the surfer. ; ) >> >> Does that mean I can be Einstein, and you get to be Bohr? LOL Just >> kidding. >> > >
