Jim Kelley wrote:
You can be the local expert on virtual photons if you want, Cecil. I'm
only on a need to know basis with them.

I understand coherent photons emitted by free electrons being
accelerated and decelerated by RF currents on a wire antenna.
I don't know much about virtual photons. I was hoping that a
physics guru would know.
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73, Cecil, http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp

Cecil Moore wrote:

Jim Kelley wrote:

You can be the local expert on virtual photons if you want, Cecil.
I'm only on a need to know basis with them.


I understand coherent photons emitted by free electrons being
accelerated and decelerated by RF currents on a wire antenna.
I don't know much about virtual photons. I was hoping that a
physics guru would know.

A physics guru might say that if it's a photon, its frequency is E/h
unless one of the virtues of being 'virtual' is that its frequency may
or may not be equal to E/h. Perhaps it's greatest virtue might even be
that you can attribute any physical characteristic you want to it - not
unlike some of the other virtual entities. ;-)

73 de ac6xg

On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 14:27:07 -0700, Jim Kelley
wrote:
Perhaps it's greatest virtue might even be that you can attribute any physical characteristic you want to it
Now there's a familiar terrain.

Hi Jim,

Are we verging on the shadow of a photon?

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

Richard Clark wrote:

Are we verging on the shadow of a photon?

Only the shadow knows. It's a quantum effect.

ac6xg