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" So, a whole branch of physics was started based on an educated guess and 100 years later noone can prove whether the guess was correct or not:)."It's not like that, one way of looking at it might be from a point of trial and error. With that comes new ideas and definitions. You find a experiment to give you some really weird results, that starts you thinking, and you search for a way to make it make sense. Later experiments may be constructed to test that idea. That's one of the most important things you need to do, to find that experiment testing your new thoughts. That way everything builds, there's a lot of new definitions today, that wouldn't have made sense to people a hundred and fifty years ago. You follow the way nature presents itself and then you search for how to explain it. It lead us to probabilities, lights duality, superpositions, relativity, conservation laws, etc etc. You can't ignore nature.=Everything is a educated guess, isn't it? From you stepping out your door, expecting yourself to exist tomorrow too, to getting an idea of a new way to do something. There are no certainties in life, and modern physics is built to accommodate this.
The photon behaves like a particle and a wave.
Quote from: Bored chemist on 19/12/2018 21:27:17Did you consider finding out how science works before trying to tell everyone that it's wrong?Not wrong. Not right. Just unproven:).
Did you consider finding out how science works before trying to tell everyone that it's wrong?
Actually, all photons have the same energy (Planck's constant joules), but different power. Energy comes in units called quanta - and this is the basis of quantum theory.
I have had to do an enormous amount of research.
Higher power photons have shorter wavelengths than lower power photons.
"Knocking an electron from a black body" is a meaningless collection of pseudoscientific words.
Higher power photons have shorter wavelengths than lower power photons. This means they transfer their energy quicker.
You're wrong. It's a physical fact that different photons have can have different energies. Its meaningless to speak of a photon having a certain amount of power. Do you know what power is? Its the energy of a system divided by the amount the energy changes over a period of time. I.e. P = dE/dt
unless I am horribly wrong
Several of us have pointed this out.
have searched high and low for this to no avail.
Quote from: mxplxxx on 22/12/2018 05:03:04 have searched high and low for this to no avail. OK, So, if you googled it, you probably got the wiki pagehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon_energyWhich bits of it do we need to explain?Also, how did you come to the conclusion that an equation that gives 400 million his on google is " lost in the sands of time. "?
Energy = a constant divided by the frequency of the photon.
h Wiki page just repeats what countless others on the Internet say about the equation.
They do not discuss the meaning of the the equation
especially given the wave function of a photon is not known.
And I am as smart as smart as can be with Uni maths as well.
Higher power photons have shorter wavelengths than lower power photons. This means they transfer their energy quicker. But the total amount of energy transferred is the same for all. You can fire a beam of low power photons at (say) a piece of aluminium and it will not knock any electrons from the aluminium irrespective of how intense the photon beam is. The higher power photons will knock electrons from the aluminium irrespective of the intensity of the photon beam. This fact was discovered by Einstein in his basic quantum research. See https://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/teaching/HPS_0410/chapters/quantum_theory_origins/ Photoelectric Effect.See also https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325462944_Planck's_Constant_and_the_Nature_of_Light..Note also that any discussion of photons in quantum theory is hindered by the fact that we don't know what the wave function of a photon is. We are totally reliant on the classical description of light as a transverse electromagnetic wave.