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How does the electron make a photon in an antenna?
ebastler:
--- Quote from: aetherist on February 07, 2023, 02:44:41 am ---There are at least 10 versions of electron electricity [...]
We have the Faraday version -- Heaviside version – Maxwell version – Veritasium (Derek) version – William Beatty version – Alphaphoenix (Brian) version – Electroboom (Mehdi) version – EEV (David) version – RSD Academy (Bob) version – The Science Asylum (Nick) version – etc.
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I think this nicely illustrates a core problem here: You are spending too much time on Youtube (and then in your own phantasies).
aetherist:
--- Quote from: AVGresponding on February 09, 2023, 06:28:44 am ---
--- Quote from: bigfoot22 on February 09, 2023, 05:42:58 am ---Could someone please explain the question and most likely answer of the OP of this thread in laymens terms?
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The first couple of pages contain some good answers. It's not until the thread gets hijacked by someone completely misunderstanding one persons answer and building a fantasy upon it that things got crazy.
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Answer or Answers -- how can u have good answers? -- duz this mean that there is no good answer?
Ok -- i ask u to provide the answer (ie the classical standard answer) -- or answers if u like (if there are worthy options).
And -- tell us -- what are the good answers in the first couple of pages?
U can take a few lines or a page -- whatever u like.
IanB:
--- Quote from: bigfoot22 on February 09, 2023, 05:42:58 am ---Could someone please explain the question and most likely answer of the OP of this thread in laymens terms?
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It is an example perhaps of a badly posed question. Therefore to provide an answer it is first required to re-pose the question: "How does the electron make a photon in an antenna?"
The question supposes that "an electron" makes "a photon" in antenna. But this is not the case. So the question cannot be answered in those terms.
What happens is that an alternating electric current in a conductor causes the emission of electromagnetic radiation, and the smallest discrete quantum of energy in such radiation is a photon. However, a photon at radio frequencies has such a small amount of energy that it doesn't really make sense to talk about RF in terms of photons. Instead, it makes much more sense to describe antennas and related circuits in terms of electric and magnetic fields using Maxwell's equations.
aetherist:
--- Quote from: IanB on February 09, 2023, 07:48:14 pm ---
--- Quote from: bigfoot22 on February 09, 2023, 05:42:58 am ---Could someone please explain the question and most likely answer of the OP of this thread in laymens terms?
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It is an example perhaps of a badly posed question. Therefore to provide an answer it is first required to re-pose the question: "How does the electron make a photon in an antenna?"
The question supposes that "an electron" makes "a photon" in antenna. But this is not the case. So the question cannot be answered in those terms.
What happens is that an alternating electric current in a conductor causes the emission of electromagnetic radiation, and the smallest discrete quantum of energy in such radiation is a photon. However, a photon at radio frequencies has such a small amount of energy that it doesn't really make sense to talk about RF in terms of photons. Instead, it makes much more sense to describe antennas and related circuits in terms of electric and magnetic fields using Maxwell's equations.
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Yes or No -- duz an antenna emit photons?
snarkysparky:
if light can be though of as composed of photons and being also an electromagnetic field then any electromagnetic field can be though of as photons.
light is the same as what comes off an antenna, only frequency is different.
So Yes
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