This concept is applied to the detail of a photon interacting with an electron. Pushing at a frequency that matches the frequency of the swing results in the greatest amplitude (height) with the least amount of energy spent. Push at the wrong frequency and the adult misses the kid or it takes significant energy. Resonance is often described like an adult pushing a kid on a swing. The electron’s spin was covered in the electron page.Ī photon must match the right frequency to be absorbed by a particle because it is the interaction of the photon’s components (granules) with the core of the electron (wave centers) that are spinning. In the atom, it is now also affected by the spin of the proton in the nucleus. A detailed view of the photon as moving aether granules and an electron with wave centers at the core of the particle is illustrated below.Īn electron’s wave center (shown as a red dot below) is constantly spinning, affected by longitudinal waves and positioning to be at a standing wave node. The interaction occurs not with the particle’s standing waves, but instead it is the interaction with wave centers at the particle’s core. Thus it is a packet of energy but it does not have mass.Ī photon may be absorbed by a particle, such as the electron, transferring energy from transverse wave form to longitudinal wave form. A photon is a traveling wave without any wave centers. Mass is defined in energy wave theory as stored energy from standing waves without consideration of wave speed. Thus, these photons are short-lived packets of transverse wave energy.Ī photon does not have mass like a particle. In the case of an electron in an atom, the vibration is short-lived. The focus and calculations of photons in this web site is based on the interaction with the electron, as it creates and absorbs photons and transfers longitudinal wave energy to transverse wave energy and vice versa. Transverse waves are created by atoms as thermal radiation reaching photon wavelengths into the infrared or visible light spectrum. As an atom increases temperature, it is because the atom is vibrating faster. At absolute zero temperature (0 K), there is no vibration and no photons are created. In molecules and atoms, temperature is a measurement of the average kinetic energy (vibration) of the atom. Photon Created from the Vibration of a Particle This will create a secondary, transverse wave perpendicular to the motion – towards the sides of the pool. Now, imagine the balloon, while still being rapidly inflated and deflated, is also traveling up-and-down, from the bottom of the pool to the top and back again. The balloon will send spherical, longitudinal waves throughout the pool, losing energy proportional to the inverse square of the distance from the balloon. Physically, the photon can be described by the vibration of a particle, creating a secondary, transverse wave that is perpendicular to the direction of vibration.Īn analogy to understand this interaction… imagine a balloon, under water in the middle of a pool, which is rapidly inflated and deflated repeatedly. Energy can be transformed from one wave form to another, but it is always conserved. Particles are standing waves of longitudinal energy and photons are transverse waves. The way to reconcile particle and photon energy equations is with waves.
Photons are a combination of longitudinal and transverse waves that may be created or absorbed by particles. One is based on mass (m), and the other uses a variable that describes a type of wave, using frequency (f) terms. Although particles and photons are both measured as energy, the variables in their equations cannot be reconciled to make them equivalent. There is no method in physics to describe the energy change from particles to photons or vice versa. The equation to relate energy to mass is Einstein’s famous E=mc 2 and the equation for photon energy is Planck’s E=hf. This is another example of the separation of the laws of physics between the classical and quantum worlds.
In current physics, particle energy and photon energy are not related through equations.
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