Time-scale of Compton scattering

[IxRxPhysicist]

Hey all,
Anyone know if there is a δt to Compton scattering or is it an instantaneous event, entertaining classical physics...billiard balls colliding in an elastic collision.

Cheers

 

[mfb]

That depends on your interpretation. Relating the transferred energy to a time via $\delta t \approx \frac{\hbar}{\delta E}$ might give some interesting results.

 

[IxRxPhysicist]

Interesting. Not to go out there too much but that does beg the notion that every event (even instantaneous ones) can be given some infinitesimal duration relative to Planck time.

IxR

 

[mfb]

We don't know how physics at the Planck scale looks like.

 

[IxRxPhysicist]

We don't know how physics at the Planck scale looks like.

Not challenging that notion.

IxR