There seems to be several possibilities. Am I mistaken to believe that there is one very exact value of orbital energy for this level? Does that imply that Doppler shift accounts for the spreading for a single free atom?
Of course, if there is interaction among the nearby atoms, spread might be expected due to coupling. And, where does the excess energy go to when a photon of slightly greater energy is absorbed by a free atom? Maybe the Compton effect makes up for the differences by very low frequency (energy) re radiation. Dave -----Original Message----- From: MarkI-ZeroPoint <[email protected]> To: vortex-l <[email protected]> Sent: Sat, Jun 22, 2013 4:01 am Subject: RE: [Vo]:Mark has blazed the path Robin wrote: " I would expect there to be a direct correlation between the Q and the line width of spectral lines." That's one possibility... Another is that the actual line is much narrower than what you see, but the frequency is varying about a mean so fast that it APPEARS to our measuring instruments as a wider, single line. -Mark Iverson -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 10:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Vo]:Mark has blazed the path In reply to David Roberson's message of Fri, 21 Jun 2013 13:52:29 -0400 (EDT): Hi, [snip] >It is not clear how a reduction in Q would reveal itself in this situation. What indications are there that the resonant frequencies might vary as stress is applied? I would expect there to be a direct correlation between the Q and the line width of spectral lines. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
