<blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Jim</i>
<br />JimMash, Rather than doing the "Is too/Is not" stuff maybe a dvice can be constructed to show how photons work and if or if not they are quantified. How would you design that kind of device?
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I cannot write anything about a thing which cannot exist.
Classical electrodynamics works perfectly well provided that:
-1 We use the Schwarzshild-Fokker trick to apply Maxwell's equations, which are linear to study all problems. This trick replaces the sources by their advanced field.
-2 We define the modes of the electromagnetic field: a mode is a set of solutions which differ only by a real multiplicative number which we name the amplitude of the field in the mode or "mode amplitude".
It must be noted that, as Maxwell's equations are linear, and work up to X rays, it is impossible to qualify a set of orthogonal modes "normal", as can be done in acoustics whose equations are linear only in a bad approximation.
-3 In a given mode, the mode amplitude defines fully the field. Thus, it is absurd to separate a fraction of the field, the zero point field, from the remainder of the field. The zero point field is a particular case of the stochastic field which, at any temperature, is in equilibrium with matter, that is statiscally nether absorbed nor emitted.
An example of absurdity is: "the electron of Bohr's atom falls on the kernel". Taking into account the stochastic field in the mode emitted by the electron (with Lamb's correction), the electron radiates no energy although it radiates a field.
