sci.physics.electromag

On Mar 28, 10:24 am, "Androcles" wrote:
> "Randy Poe" wrote in message
>
> news:c6a1628c-4904-4cc3-8ed1-21c884c0b1f4@c19g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
> | 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!

Do we need to add Maxwell's equations to the ever-growing
list of established science you don't believe in?

> 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.

Oh, I see. It's a parsing issue. You couldn't find the
subject in my sentence. This is that language-barrier
thing again.

- Randy