Recent content by danno

Actually, this paper says the electron only scatters once! http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1992Ap%26SS.192..219I However I suspect that the paper is saying that the multiple scattering probability is very close to zero due to the fact that the electron absorbs a lot of the photon energy, but...

I'm testing my faith in the photon. I understand that energy levels are quantized, and I understand that the EM field carries momentum. I want to make sure the idea of a photon is necessary to intuitively understand the observations. I am focused on compton scattering of a photon and an...