sci.physics.electromag

"Randy Poe" wrote in message
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| On Mar 28, 5:03 am, shsfowcn...@mailinator.com wrote:
| > Hi all,
| >
| > I wanted to ask for an explanation on the relationship between photons
| > and electrons when it comes to visible light and electromagnetic
| > radiation.
| >
| > I read that light is electromagnetic radiation and also that it is
| > made out of photons.
|
| That is our current model, yes.
|
| > If both of these is true, is electromagnetic radiation a photon (or
| > photons) moving across space?
|
| It is believed to be a large collection of photons moving
| across space.
|
| >
| > And why are the photons we receive in our eyes called electromagnetic
| > radiation?
|
| Because the properties of this large collection of photons are
| quite well described by Maxwell's equations as a radiating
| electromagnetic wave


HAHAHA!

radiate: to spread abroad or around as if from a center

The "collection" does that (THE inverse square law), but the photon scarcely
spreads at all and is certainly not a "radiating electromagnetic wave"; it
is
a quantum of em energy, a pulse emitted by an atom or molecule and
highly directional. Maxwell's waves are omnidirectional for Maxwell's
aether.
The very small spread of a photon is why distant galaxies appear red,
not because they are flying away from us.