On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 5:35 PM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > Apparently gamme rays are emitted by nuclei when they drop from an > excited state to a lower energy state (much as a lower energy photon can be > emitted when an electron in an atom moves from a high to a low energy > state). Hence what the atom had beforehand was excess energy (in some form). >
Here is what Richard Feynman said about that when his father asked him a question about physics: He said, "I understand that when an atom makes a transition from one state to another, it emits a particle called a photon." "That's right," I said. He says, "Is the photon in the atom ahead of time?" "No, there's no photon beforehand." "Well," he says, "where does it come from, then? How does it come out?" I tried to explain it to him -- that photon numbers aren't conserved; they're just created by the motion of the electron -- but I couldn't explain it very well. I said, "It's like the sound I'm making now: it wasn't in me before." (It's not like my little boy, who suddenly announced one day, when he was very young, that he could no longer say a certain word -- the word turned out to be "cat" -- because his "word bag" had run out of the word. There's no word bag that makes you use up words as they come out; in the same sense, there's no "photon bag" in an atom.) > I must say it is ominous that you [John Ross] are consistently failing > to answer my questions about the reasoning behind all of this > At this point the cause of all this evasion and lack of logic is obvious, John Ross is a certified card carrying crackpot. 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.
