Re: what's light emiited by protons look like?


Randy Poe wrote:
mainargv@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
hi

I've just realised my textbook missed a lot of things.
Or my understanding is wrong.
According to classical physics, light is the EM radiation of
accelerated (jiggling) charges,
or the wave between two jiggling electrons.

No, that's not what light is.

Can you provide the original statement that you think says this?

- Randy

This is not a single statement, it's the sequence my textbook structure
their introduction.
1. Coulomb's law: F=kq1q1/r^2
2. Brownian motion, Einstein's papers
3. Millikan experiment 1911
4. J.J. Thomson 1898 (eerie green light)
5. Tolman and Stewart 1916 (spinning metal disk)

Since, this is the second time I reviewed this stuff, it occurred to me
all the introductory textbook tends to focus on electron as the source
of light, especially when talking about spectrum of different elements.
Protons and other particles were completely ignored. I'm thinking
according to Coulomb's law, any charged matter once accelerated should
generated EM field.

.

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