Re: What is a photon

On Sun, 29 Jun 2025 19:45:47 +0000, William Hyde wrote:

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.

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How would the proton be nascent?
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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.

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Yes.
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The electron can orbit the proton forming a hydrogen atom.

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

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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.

No in beta decay an electron is emitted just as in alpha decay a helium
nucleus is emitted.

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I admit that for a second I wondered if a neutron could not be formed
that way.

A neutron is an electron-proton pair, very very tight. The electron
there can attract other protons making it a deuterium nucleus.

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But, of course, to turn a proton into a neutron an up quark must be
changed to a down quark,

Quack-quack. At some stage imagination becomes reality following
Einsteinian paradigms.
Woof woof woof-woof woof woof-woof woof
Bertietaylor
and  that involves the strong nuclear force,

which the electron does not have at all.
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Hence the fact that this can only occur in a nucleus, where the strong
force is present.
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I actually learned something in sci.physics!  That takes me back ...
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William Hyde

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