Subtle Stuff

RANT #10: My sole commentator discredited my phenomenal wavelet collapse into a well-behaved sine train because the behavior of the photon is so subtle. You can get your fill at Wikipedia - there you'll find more than enough subtletries to gag a horse. There's the classical Mawell wave equations, the semi-classical, quantum mechanical, gauge field theory, on and on. Each adding tedium until you can act like a lawyer and believe anything. These are not wrong but I'm inclined to think they are different shadows in Plato's cave. There is room for simplicity and the wavelet could take up that space. Now, there are two fundmentally different types of fundmental particles. Without overdoing it, there are Fermions and Bosons. The electron is the simplest Fermion, only two electrons in a discrete system (like an atom) can have the same energy (think spacial occupation, like latitude, longitude and distance from the center) this requires three quantum numbers (n,l and m) but these two have to have a different orientation called spin (s). The spin of an electron is either +1/2 or -1/2. Feymann likened half spin to going around twice to return to where you start: a Moebius strip behaves like a spin 1/2 particle. The photon is the simplest Boson. It has no mass and a spin off 1. An infinitude of photons can occupy the same energy state. It travels in a straight line (one dimensional) and can be interpreted at as phase electric and magnetic fields perpendicular to its path. The wavelet we have seen is one of those fields so you have to imagine another sticking in and out of the plane. The energy and all other properties are defined in terms of the energy by the relation E=hν where h is a fundamental constant known as Planck's constant and ν is the frequency. The velocity is c, the speed of light - the upper limit to motion in the universe The photon has momentum associated with it although it is massless. In general a photon is created when an electron in an atom falls to a lower energy state. Once created it travels straight across the universe until it is absorbed by interacting with an atom. Most continue through space and as they do their wavelength stretches and the amplitude proportionally shrinks - the area of the crest and trough stays constant. So what has been found is a wavelet that can add on top of one in the train and double the amplitude or add to the end of the train in phase that has the properties of a Boson. The first I refer to as the wave front and the second as the wave train. Enough for now.