I got the Post Flood error on my second post --- waited 2 or 3 seconds and hit REPLY again.

My post were probs exactly 30 seconds apart.  FTMFW!

CrapshootDeac wrote: I have a knack for killing threads too. Usually it's because I arrive late to the party and the thread has already run its course, then I toss some inane comment on the end and no one responds to it. Kind of like this.

yea, lol this is true sometimes with me

wakeforest3521 wrote:

 

CrapshootDeac wrote: I have a knack for killing threads too. Usually it's because I arrive late to the party and the thread has already run its course, then I toss some inane comment on the end and no one responds to it. Kind of like this.

yea, lol this is true sometimes with me

Same.  Unless it is an unusually interesting topic, I don't usually feel like reading the entire 9 pages or what not to see if anyone has already said what I am about to say.  I've also realized that a personal debate between 2 lesser known posters (IE myself and somone else) is a quick way for people to lose interest in a thread, thus they no longer care about posting what they thought about the initial topic.

When an electron is accelerated, electromagnetic (EM) radiation is released. This radiation can be interpreted as either wave-like (an oscillating disturbance in the EM field) - or particle like (a massless particle called the photon) moving outward at the speed of light. According to Quantum Mechanics, these interpetations are equivilant: they are both valid mathematical descriptions of a quantum phenomena. In the quantum world, there is no definitive physical reality, math is our only working guide.

The electron, likewise a quantum particle or wave, can only emit or absorb radiation in discrete quantities. The change in energy of the electron is the energy of the photon that is absorbed or released.

The more energentic the photon, the shorter it's wavelength. A photon with an energy greater than 13.6 eV has enough energy to ionize (strip the electron away) a hydrogen atom. The collision of an electron and a positron produces two photons of energy greater than half a million eV.

Anyone else see the Tyra episode where people ate their boogers?

nah i havent seen that

well you should

magnolialeague wrote:

 

 

When an electron is accelerated, electromagnetic (EM) radiation is released. This radiation can be interpreted as either wave-like (an oscillating disturbance in the EM field) - or particle like (a massless particle called the photon) moving outward at the speed of light. According to Quantum Mechanics, these interpetations are equivilant: they are both valid mathematical descriptions of a quantum phenomena. In the quantum world, there is no definitive physical reality, math is our only working guide.

The electron, likewise a quantum particle or wave, can only emit or absorb radiation in discrete quantities. The change in energy of the electron is the energy of the photon that is absorbed or released.

The more energentic the photon, the shorter it's wavelength. A photon with an energy greater than 13.6 eV has enough energy to ionize (strip the electron away) a hydrogen atom. The collision of an electron and a positron produces two photons of energy greater than half a million eV.

And if we consider the fact that physicists claim that they know what time is and that what we experience as time is not the same as what physicists know to be time, then it's easy to be confused.

Say, wasn't the 20th century supposed to be the age of great advances in physics? What's going on here? The more we advance the more confusing a contradictory things become.