On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 18:21:28 -0700, Jim Kelley
wrote:



Cecil Moore wrote:

In modern physics, the photon is the elementary particle responsible
for electromagnetic phenomena.

Sounds like the egg is responsible for sex. What happened to
electrons?

It mediates electromagnetic
interactions and is the fundamental constituent of all forms of
electromagnetic radiation, that is, light. The photon has zero rest
mass and, in empty space, travels at a constant speed c;

That speed is hardly constant, it is relative. Or so Einstein would
have us believe.

According to the Standard Model of particle physics, photons are
responsible for producing all electric and magnetic fields,

Baloney cut thick.

and are
themselves the product of requiring that physical laws have a certain
symmetry at every point in spacetime.

Nevertheless, all semiclassical theories were refuted definitively in
the 1970's and 1980's by elegant photon-
correlation experiments.

What a short attention span from between the copy machine to the
keyboard.

Sounds impressive. Are you running for office by any chance?

Sounds like bull**** Xeroxed off at random.

So, should momentum change? Or should we expect it to be conserved?

"Should momentum change?" Is this a moral or ethical question? Is
this a debate about the nature of free will?

Momentum is conserved. A change in momentum is a change in
the direction of momentum, not a change in the magnitude.
Hams call that a reflection. What do you call it?

It's called acceleration - G force. We call it "the question that
hasn't an answer from Cecil."

So is your claim that, to "hams", a change in the magnitude of
momentum is not called a change in momentum?

Jim,

He can't put a name to it, and he is at a loss to find a value for it.
It is lost in all the other baggage of forfeited claims.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC