In rec.radio.amateur.antenna gareth wrote:
Do radio waves occur in photons, as some would claim, or
are photons just a facet of being generated from subatomic
actions?

All electromagnetic energy can be viewed as having the properties of
particles (photons) or the properties of waves.

What electromagnetic energy actually is is still an open question.

For example, assuming that the Big Bang is true, in the short
time afterwards, there were no subatomic particles but there
would seem to have been a massive outward flux of energy.

I'm not going to type in details of something already existing and
easily read:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang

If radio waves are generated as photons, are they generated
in phase, and how much energy is associated with each photon?

Electromagnetic energy has phase in the wave model, not the particle model.

The energy of a photon is the frequency times Planck's Contant.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon

(Just a couple of off-the-cuff thoughts to provoke seemly
and gentlemanly technical discussion)

Except for what electromagnetic energy actully IS, all this has been
settled decades ago, is easily looked up, and is as suitable for
discussion as what is 6 divided by 3.


--
Jim Pennino