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Just Chat! / Re: Is there a maximum frequency for a gamma ray?
« on: 22/02/2022 00:17:24 »....we did all just step around the possibility that if you push the frequency of the gamma ray higher then we could get outside the range of energy that most of the current scientific theories work with.As this is informal, otherwise much would go into new theories, although the new theorists proposing these ideas are orders of magnitude brighter than the ones we get here. There is interesting work being done at CERN, some on photon/photon collisions which don’t happen at low energies. Some work on questioning whether high energies might reveal extra dimensions via Kaluza-Klein states, or might reveal gravitons which wouldn’t be detected, but could be lost into the extra dimension leaving an energy momentum imbalance.
Don’t worry about the discussions on the very short wavelengths/high energies needed to make measurements near planck length creating a black hole. As you’ve no doubt realised, the energy needed to create John Wheeler's kugleblitz put it out of being a credible possibility. However, it’s still a lot less than Asimov’s suggestion.