Cecil Moore wrote:

...
Five joules of HF (10 MHz) requires ten times as many
photons as five joules of VHF (100 MHz). What HF photons
lack in energy, they make up for in quantity.
...

Like I said, my original post in response to you was just "a joke", of
course the velocity of all photons is assumed constant.

However, the fact we fire a shotguy (HF) or a single bullet (VHF) makes
the photons in HF assume different charastistics than that of the fewer
photons of VHF?

I mean, I may be rather dense here, but I am attempting to put the model
you are presenting here together--obviously, I am missing something ...

Regards,
JS
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http://assemblywizard.tekcities.com

John Smith I wrote:

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However, the fact we fire a shotguy (HF) or a single bullet (VHF) makes
...

Of course, in the above, "shotguy" = shotgun!

JS
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http://assemblywizard.tekcities.com

John Smith I wrote:
--obviously, I am missing something ...

Maybe cause and effect? Cause and effect is indeed
missing in a lot of QED stuff. Not only do some
virtual particles move faster than the speed of
light but also apparently necessarily jump
backwards in time.
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73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com

On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 11:34:36 -0600, Cecil Moore
wrote:
Maybe cause and effect? Cause and effect is indeed
missing in a lot of QED stuff. Not only do some
virtual particles move faster than the speed of
light but also apparently necessarily jump
backwards in time.

So-called Feynman diagrams represent antimatter particles (positrons,
anti-quarks, etc) as the corresponding "matter" particles going
backward in time. Of course no physicist actually takes this
interpretation seriously. Nor do I believe particle theorists take
virtual particles seriously. They are just a convenient
representation of the terms in a perturbation expansion. It is unclear
to me that virtual particles play a role in non-perturbative theories.

--John

John E. Davis wrote:
It is unclear
to me that virtual particles play a role in non-perturbative theories.

How about the static magnetic field from a permanent
magnet?
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73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com