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Old August 30th 07, 01:01 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Denny Denny is offline
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Default Photon vs Wave emissions from antennas?



EM waves are sets of coherent photons.
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73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com


So Cecil , what should I call incoherent photons?
and welcome back

Anyway, back at the ranch, no one has brought up quantum
electrodynamics (Feynman would be unhappy - since all the photons
leaving the surface of the white hot, rotating, razor blade will
occupy all possible paths from there to your eye - including having
all of them emanate only from the razor's edge for an instant)

And, no one has invoked Schroedinger since looking at that photon will
cause it to disappear...

Now, let me discuss Alice - had Alice taken more of the potion and
grown large enough that the lens and retina of her eyes were millions
of 80 meter wavelengths across, she would indeed see your antenna glow
with pulses of 'light' as you key your transmitter, dit dit dit
dahhhhhh...

Speaking of which, I now feel the urge to put Beethoven's Fifth on the
turntable...

denny