ohwilleke thank you for an intelligent and unemotional response, same to the others on this list. For those of us who have limited maths and a real curiosity but are still capble of "good and productive thinking" (thanks for that line arildno) without it. As a poet I'm aware of a variety of ways...
It is interesting that mathematicians are so evangelical about the universality of math, it is a symbolic language of description like any language. i admit is is special because it uses physical systems as its basis or at least the numerical relationships, but numbers and logic are limited and...
You a good point about the way more concentrated energy photons are produced but I don't know if that's proves my point wrong xgen. It just confirms the idea that if we measured energy in a more abstract way photons could have the same amount of energy just focussed in different ways by the wave...
Is the struggle to reach beyond relativity and quantum mechanics, beyond the big bang, possibly its creation and necessity to our logic, the result of structural problems with mathematics itself? The fundamental unit of maths is numbers, is it not? The discovery of zero or its inclusion in the...
thanx for pointing me direction to look... i looked up Planck and compton and co. Still not really satisfied... The problem maybe that I'm thinking of photons in terms of size because it seems to affect the systems we have for receiving or if you like measuring the affects of photons, in fact...
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Interesting that energy should be so indefineable... I don't think you answered my question. Let's say that energy is what's being communicated by light and stored in matter. If we looked at waves on the macro level the bigger the wave - longer the wave length and lower the...
This maybe a dum question! Does the wave length/frequency of a photon decide its energy level? If so, does this mean the energy of all photons, in fact, is equal because actually its energy is spread out of a larger space and seems different? This would mean that a high frequency shorter wave...