Re: Cubic Complex Variables / Applications

Dear Symmetry Observer:

"Symmetry Observer" <mathexpert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Now consider, for example,
> the electron in orbit around the nucleus of a hydrogen
> atom. Now if it is at all possible, let us just for a
> moment disregard such things as Heisenberg's
> Uncertainty Principle, the curvature of space - time,
> the path of geodesics, etc., and ask ourselves the
> simple question: when the electron in the hydrogen
> atoms emits a photon, does the photon
> INSTANTANEOUSLY start out with the velocity c?

Yes. The photon is massless, so "acceleration" is a non-issue.
It is the very epitome of "impulse"... an effect too short to
attribute more than a finite net result to. The electron
orbitals overlap, so an "instantaneous" transition between said
orbitals is no big thing either.

David A. Smith


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