Keith Dysart wrote:
On Dec 14, 1:52 pm, Cecil Moore wrote:
Do you think electrons support mechanical waves?

Simplicity itself. Electrons are charged. Like charges
repel. Move an electron and the next electron will tend
to move away.

So by your own admission, those are not mechanical waves.
Like charge repulsion is *NOT a mechanical phenomenon*.
Those electrons never touch each other. They are repelled
by the photons they are emitting.

I've been told that near the antenna, there are just
varying electric and magnetic fields and that some
distance from the antenna the electro-magnetic
wave forms. How does the varying field turn into a
photon?

The varying field ***IS*** made up of *PHOTONS*.
All electromagnetic fields consist of photons!
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