Re: What is a photon

On Sun, 15 Jun 2025 22:56:11 +0000, Bertitaylor wrote:

On Sun, 15 Jun 2025 12:36:51 +0000, J. J. Lodder wrote:
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bertitaylor <bertietaylor@myyahoo.com> wrote:
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A photon is a brief electromagnetic wave pulse travelling a light speed
in the medium of aether.

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For the kiddies: this is wrong.

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No, it is consistent with reality.
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A photon is (by definition) a momentum eigenstate of the EM field,

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Nice bullshit but no kid will swallow that.
For one thing a field has no mass so no momentum for momentum is mass
times velocity.
And eigenstate is a complex math term which is well beyond the scope of
kids. In this context it makes no sense except to bamboozle the
pullulating gullible.
Typical Einsteinian garbage designed to confuse. Anti Science!
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So what is happening?
What is happening is aetheric vibrations travelling at speed of light to
and from all the infinite charges in the universe.
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They are caused and created by impacts upon and corresponding
rectifications the atomic structures that cause or rectify distortions
to the electronic structure.
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Looks like this will be well within the scope of kiddies, like most of
Arindam's physics. That is, all not dealing with his new rail gun design
theory which is a bit difficult for kids.
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Bertietaylor
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hence also an energy eigenstate.

Energy is a scalar showing how much work can be done by whatever
containing energy.
An eigenstate represents with the application of a delta function for
instantaneous depiction the set of fluctuating eigenvectors that are
derived from the solution of the characteristic n degree differential
equation indicative of the stability of a complex system.
To think of simple energy -  so simple that even bunnyahs understand it
all too well - which is work or force times distance as any sort of
eigenstate is ridiculous. What is complex is the distortion
characteristic of the electron structure caused by internal forces such
as radioactivity or external such as particle impact of radiation in
meaning aetheric vibrations.
These distortions create force absorption and the remedial process
creates the varying electric field which is the brief electromagnetic
pulse called photon.

This implies both wave and particle aspects.

Both relate to force.
Force is for physicists.
Energy is for bunnyahs and their attendant lords.
The term energy should be minimised as far as possible in physics texts.

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Hence it has infinite extent. It is not a brief flash.
You can make brief flashes of light of course,
as linear superpositions of (infinitely many) eigenstates.

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Bertietaylor

But then but its localisation and its frequency/energy are spread out.
(typical example: coherent states)
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Jan
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[snip more nonsense]

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