Re: The Emission Theory of Androcles

hw@..(Henry Wilson, DSc) wrote:
Jonah Thomas <jethomas5@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Incidentally, this is likely to seem like a stupid question -- I am
ignorant about such things and I don't know any better. If the
electrons in a radio tower are moving at close to lightspeed to
generate their signal, could your theory predict anything from that
which might be different from other theories?

You're at rest relative to the antenna, and the electrons are moving
very fast, not necessarily orthogonal to you. Any chance of something
observable from that?

My theory about radio waves is that they consist of a great many
photons, the density of which is modulated by the motion of the
electrons. The electrons are accelerating continuously and in doing
so, radiate heaps of photons with more or less random energies....the
radio wave structure is made up by the photon density wave.
A radio wave is not a single photon like a quanta of light emitted by
an atom. The frequency of a generated radio wave bears no relation to
the 'frequency' of an individual photon, whatever that may signify.

Can your theory predict what will come out of a 400 foot radio tower? If
so, does it predict anything interesting?

There's the complication that these signals are passing through air. But
if the theory predicts anything interesting it might be possible to get
data about communication among satellites where that complication is
much reduced. The relative velocity of the satellites may be small, but
the velocity of the actual source inside the antenna would be large, if
it's relevant.

What about synchrotron radiation?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchrotron_radiation

Apparently SR gives some interesting predictions which are claimed to
fit the actual data. If emission theory were to duplicate those
predictions that would be a plus.

I thought I wrote something like this last night, but it doesn't show up
here and I'm repeating it.
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