Re: The size of a photon

Hi,

Recently I released an animation RvsQ.exe of transitions between
orbitals, available at
http://crespinnnb.com/RvsQHomeEng.html

Bundled with the software there is a paper, "Realism", containing a
proof and interpretation of Einstein formula
E=hc/lambda(*)
See the sci.physics group thread
http://groups.google.co.ve/group/sci.physics/browse_thread/thread/efd88716bedbd06a/77d1ba3cfc5c2d60?lnk=gst&q=RvsQ.exe&rnum=1#77d1ba3cfc5c2d60
where the following two experimental papers are mentioned
http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/1367-2630/6/1/095
http://mste.laser.physik.uni-muenchen.de/nature.pdf
perhaps these may be useful to you.

The proof of (*) also implies that the size of the photon is actually
lambda. Thus, the photon is not the carrier of an oscillatory
phenomenon of frequency $\nu$ but rather is an electromagnetic soliton
of wavelength $\lambda$.

Regards,
Daniel

FrediFizzx wrote:

"Phil Gardner" <pej_dg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1162184127.149679.216590@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
A good case can be made for the hypothesis that all photons are the
same size and have the same spatial distribution (energy
density/energy) of mass-energy as the electron.

Not even close for most photons wrt the spatial distribution of their
wavefunction. The spatial distribution for a radio wave photon's
wavefunction can be as big as a house or bigger.

It runs like this: We all accept that an electron in motion can have a
De Broglie wavelength ranging from, say, 10^-15 m to 10^50 m, and that
throughout this range the size of the electron is unchanged. I can
find
no experimental results that conflict with the assumption that this is
true for the photon as well.

Helical antennas have the highest gain when their circumference is about
the same as the EM radiation wavelength. This leads one to believe that
the spatial distribution of EM radiation photons' wave is about the
same.

The photons produced in electron-positron annihilation must, at least
momentarily, have the same mass-energy density as their parent
particles. There is no evidence that it changes as they move apart. At
any speed the kinetic energy density of an electron is proportional to
its rest mass energy density. In any emission of part of this energy
as
a photon this will at least initially have the same spatial
distribution.

Perhaps of the same order. There is no reason to assume this for all
photons however.

Can anyone cite any experimental results that conflict with this
hypothesis?

See above.

FrediFizzx

Quantum Vacuum Charge papers;
http://www.vacuum-physics.com/QVC/quantum_vacuum_charge.pdf
or postscript
http://www.vacuum-physics.com/QVC/quantum_vacuum_charge.ps
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/physics/0601110
http://www.vacuum-physics.com

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