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Old October 10th 06, 03:36 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Jim Kelley Jim Kelley is offline
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Richard Clark wrote:

On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 00:21:58 GMT, Gene Fuller
wrote:


To be a bit fussy, the temperature of a photon is not defined. Only a
distribution of photon energies can be defined with a temperature
(sometimes). Assuming a standard blackbody model, your answer is correct
of course.



Hi Gene,

Fussy is the name of the game here in this forum; and fussy will
ultimately dominate; hence I defer to your amplification. I suggested
a black body model late in the game certainly, and only through
allusion to the frequency of the peak wavelength.


And I assumed we were talking the energy of the photon.

By the way Richard, Wein's Law? We've long since learned that energy
is quantized. E=hv That's how much energy is in a single photon at
frequency v. (At least, that's what Einstein thought.) No fudging
needed!

73, Jim AC6XG