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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Schear)
Mon Nov 9 00:40:47 1998
In-Reply-To: <199811081742.LAA05396@einstein.ssz.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 18:20:10 -0800
To: Jim Choate <ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com>
From: Steve Schear <schear@lvcm.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: Steve Schear <schear@lvcm.com>
>Well actualy to be absolutely exact the photon is locked between the protons
>and the electron. It is *NEVER* gone or destroyed. You can't destroy energy,
>only transform it's form. The photon is *NEVER* absorbed by anything.
Seems like we're placing angels on the head of the pin. Its not exactly my
understanding of QED.
>> a single moving electron certainly doesn't carry a photon. Photons move
>> at the speed of light, always.
According to QED the speed of light in a particular medium (or index of
refraction) is statistical in the same way that light always take the
shortest path (it doesn't).
--Steve
