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Visualizing a photon How electrons make them?
« on: March 12, 2018, 05:41:17 am »
This is something I have been trying to figure out. Yes I realize these are abstract concepts and don't translate to the physical sized world we can see but some general ideas.

A photon is a particle and a wave. Its "size" is equal to its wave length. I can visualize how a light photon is created. An electron umps from a higher energy orbital to a lower one a photon f light is produced it's size being around the length of the jump(?). The photon is like flat disk that forms a cylinder as it travels through space the cylinder as wide as its wave length long as the speed of light times time.

Things are a bit more complicated with say 1 meter waves. The electrons in a metal antenna bounce back and fourth in the wire with each oscillation forming a singe photon (?) that is a flat plane (RF is a magnetic field at a right angle to the electric thus forming a photon.) Or is photon created for every electron that jumps? This would make sense kind of but it would make things stronger(more photons) as the wave length got longer because there would be more photons? Or does that make sense because the photons have less energy since they are lower wavelength compared to light.

If you have a meter antenna and a 300 MHz signal can you emit one photon by turning a special transmitter on for a split second? If so which direction would the photon take or would it be totally random going in any direction with probability matching radiation pattern? Would one photon be a 1/300,000,000 pulse? This seems too long. How do yo get more photon by adding more watts?


Here another unrelated thought: What if the double slit works with electrons in this example because as soon as an electron pops into existence it's wave function is the size of the universe instantly. While being a point particle the electrons field of influence definitely has size and that size is just there or does it grow at the speed of light and we just don't notice it because its so fast at that small distance. Then there would be nothing spooky about it: the "shape" of the electron would already fit into the other slit and that's how it "knows" it exists without passing through it. Like how gas fits the shape of its container. There may  be some reason to this because we see probability waves that spread with distance but never hit zero just getting close.
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