On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 8:39 PM, John Ross <[email protected]> wrote:
> A 928 MeV photon is a very high energy photon. It is off the scale of > every chart I have ever seen of the electric magnetic spectrum. Why don’t > you send me your chart showing your 500 GeV photon. > The existence of photons with energy far far higher than 928 MeV (or even far higher than 500 GeV) isn't even a controversial point, a good place to start is the Wikipedia article on Ultra High Energy Gamma Rays, something you should already have read if you're going to write about them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-high-energy_gamma_ray It says: " [the Galaxy] Markarian 501 has so far produced the highest measured energy for a gamma ray of 16 TeV." 16 TeV is 16,000 GeV or 16,000,000 MeV, it makes your little 928 MeV photon look pretty damn wimpy. However all this is really irrelevant because photons, both very high energy ones and very low energy ones, don't behave anything like neutrinos. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
