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HiggsBoson
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Re: What drives an atom?
07/13/08 11:11 AM
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Rather than comment on the experiment I will suggest that I do not understand the experiment.
Consider that the shortest pulse possible would consist of a single photon. One could not make a pulse shorter than that! If an electron is ‘orbiting’ a nucleus of an atom and you release your photon there are only two possible outcomes:
The photon does not interact with the electron. The photon would exit the experiment without returning to the imager and you have nothing in your photography.
The second case is where the photon interacts with the electron, knocking it into a higher energy state. The photon is gone and you still do not know where the electron ‘was’ in its orbit at the time of interaction with the photon. In this case it is possible for the electron to drop back to the same ‘orbit’ and omit a new photon. There is a possibility that the new photon will emit in a direction that allows it to encounter the imaging system. I submit that the location of the new photon in your image will tell you nothing about where the electron was in its ‘orbit’ at the time of interaction with the first photon.
I would rather believe that these guys actually do know what they are doing and that we may have insufficient detail in this forum to evaluate their efforts.
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