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From: Jim Pennino <jimp@gonzo.specsol.net>
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Subject: Re: What is a photon
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2025 17:36:03 -0700
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Bertitaylor <bertietaylor@myyahoo.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Jun 2025 19:45:47 +0000, William Hyde wrote:
> 
>> Jim Pennino wrote:
>>> In sci.physics Bertitaylor <bertietaylor@myyahoo.com> wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 1 Jun 2025 10:03:22 +0000, bertitaylor wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> A photon is a brief electromagnetic wave pulse travelling a light speed
>>>>> in the medium of aether.
>>>>>
>>>>> Following antenna theory, of asymmetry in the electron orbit from
>>>>> external excitation causing vibration to aether. A change in electric
>>>>> field causes a change in the magnetic field, which again causes a
>>>>> electric field, which creates a magnetic field, and so on and on,
>>>>> infinitely infinitely.
>>>>>
>>>>> Woof woof woof woof, great is the design of the universe and wonderful
>>>>> its workings, when seen in correct detail.
>>>>>
>>>>> Bertietaylor
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>
>>>> When a nascent hydrogen ion or proton meets an electron coming at or
>>>> near it, one of three things must happen.
>>>
>>> How would the proton be nascent?
>>>
>>> What difference would it make if the proton were 5 billion years old
>>> versus 5 nanoseconds old?
>>>
>>>>
>>>> The electron can go past it if the speed or angle was too much.
>>>
>>> Yes.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> The electron can orbit the proton forming a hydrogen atom.
>>>
>>> Yes.
>>>
>>>> The electron and proton can meet in tight union and form a neutron.
>>>
>>> Nope, free protons are stable and don't turn into neutrons. Beta plus
>>> decay is a type of radioactive decay where a proton in a NUCLEUS is
>>> converted into a neutron, a positron and a neutrino.
> 
> No in beta decay an electron is emitted just as in alpha decay a helium
> nucleus is emitted.

That whooshing sound you just heard is everything that was written going
over your head, Arindam

>>
>> I admit that for a second I wondered if a neutron could not be formed
>> that way.
> 
> A neutron is an electron-proton pair, very very tight. The electron
> there can attract other protons making it a deuterium nucleus.

Nope, a neutron is one "up" quark and two "down" quarks, held together
by the strong nuclear force. 

>>
>> But, of course, to turn a proton into a neutron an up quark must be
>> changed to a down quark,
> 
> Quack-quack. At some stage imagination becomes reality following
> Einsteinian paradigms.

And insanity is following your delusions Arindam.

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