Re: What is a photon

Jim Pennino wrote:

In sci.physics Bertitaylor <bertietaylor@myyahoo.com> wrote:

On Sun, 1 Jun 2025 10:03:22 +0000, bertitaylor 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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Following antenna theory, of asymmetry in the electron orbit from
external excitation causing vibration to aether. A change in electric
field causes a change in the magnetic field, which again causes a
electric field, which creates a magnetic field, and so on and on,
infinitely infinitely.
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Woof woof woof woof, great is the design of the universe and wonderful
its workings, when seen in correct detail.
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Bertietaylor
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When a nascent hydrogen ion or proton meets an electron coming at or
near it, one of three things must happen.

 How would the proton be nascent?
 What difference would it make if the proton were 5 billion years old
versus 5 nanoseconds old?
 

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The electron can go past it if the speed or angle was too much.

 Yes.
 

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The electron can orbit the proton forming a hydrogen atom.

 Yes.
 

The electron and proton can meet in tight union and form a neutron.

 Nope, free protons are stable and don't turn into neutrons. Beta plus
decay is a type of radioactive decay where a proton in a NUCLEUS is
converted into a neutron, a positron and a neutrino.

I admit that for a second I wondered if a neutron could not be formed that way.
But, of course, to turn a proton into a neutron an up quark must be changed to a down quark, and  that involves the strong nuclear force, which the electron does not have at all.
Hence the fact that this can only occur in a nucleus, where the strong force is present.
I actually learned something in sci.physics!  That takes me back ...
William Hyde