On Jun 17, 10:37 pm, Richard Clark wrote:
On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 15:19:59 -0700, Radium
wrote:

What is the minimum amount of photons-per-second needed for a 150 KHz
AM radio carrier wave to transmit audio signals? Around 20,000-photons-
per-second?

I keep trying and trying to count the 150kc photons ^sec by scooping
them up on a wire and displaying them across a digital osillyscope.
but the instant they interact with the wire they are transformed into
electrons... And those, dibble dabble damned electrons go hide amongst
the other electrons on the surface of the conductor and mock me...
They keep printing, "Photon, photon, who's got the photon, nyaa, nyaa,
nya, nayaa, nyaaaaaaa" across the computer screen...
So I said to myself, 'I'll teach em' - and hooked up a diode and a
speaker to the end of the antenna wire and be damned if they hadn't
transformed into phonons... Now they were mocking me by chanting,
"Who let the dogs out, who, hoooooo..."
So, then I said, 'I'll teach ya', and I hooked up a transmitter to the
end of the wire with a SWR meter and pumped 150kc photons into the
wire... The SWR meter showed infinity to one, or was it one to
infinity, or was that, oh jeez, now I'm confused... *&^()$#@* SWR
meter lies!

I need a beer...

denny / k8do