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Photons?
Brian Reay wrote:
Roger Hayter wrote: Brian Reay wrote: "Wayne" wrote: Consider this. Waves and photons exist in visible light at any frequency. If the frequency is lowered below the visible spectrum all the way down to say, 1 MHz, at what point do the photons disappear? Or do they just get weak? You are making the same error as the village idiot. I don't think he is! He is demonstrating by reductio ad absurdum that the photons *don't* disappear. But thanks for reinforcing what everyone but Gareth is saying. You didn't really need to insult Gareth in the course of demonstrating where he is going wrong though, did you? All EM radiation is the same in its nature. Terms like light and radio waves are simply labels we have applied to different parts of the EM spectrum. In part possibly because we didn't realise they were related, I can't recall the history. The village idiot's confusion is added to by him trying to mix simple Bohr models of the atom with more complex ones. Basically, he is out of his depth, as usual. He is forever trying to mix 'school book' physics with terms he has picked up but doesn't understand. When people try to help him, he abuses them, sometimes inventing his own 'whacky' theories when he can't understand how this work. I never mentioned Gareth. If you linked him to the name 'village idiot', that is down to you. You wouldn't accept that alibi from an eleven year old; you surely don't expect us to accept it from you! -- Roger Hayter |
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