Cecil Moore wrote:

Jim Kelley wrote:

You can be the local expert on virtual photons if you want, Cecil.
I'm only on a need to know basis with them.


I understand coherent photons emitted by free electrons being
accelerated and decelerated by RF currents on a wire antenna.
I don't know much about virtual photons. I was hoping that a
physics guru would know.

A physics guru might say that if it's a photon, its frequency is E/h
unless one of the virtues of being 'virtual' is that its frequency may
or may not be equal to E/h. Perhaps it's greatest virtue might even be
that you can attribute any physical characteristic you want to it - not
unlike some of the other virtual entities. ;-)

73 de ac6xg