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- From: mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Mcirvin)
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- Subject: Re: Defining Photons
- Keywords: Relating photons E=MC^2 criticism
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- Date: 27 Jul 92 16:20:44 GMT
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- dwr2560@zeus.tamu.edu (RING, DAVID WAYNE) writes:
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- >I think anything with a charge will appear as a particle in the classical
- >limit, whether boson or fermion. Like a W in a cloud chamber. And anything
- >which interacts as weakly as a neutrino would behave like a wave.
-
- Perhaps in some sense the neutrino would, since it wouldn't be
- localized by interactions with other fields or media. But you
- would not be able to build up an immense oscillating amplitude
- for the neutrino field so that it could act like a wave in a
- classical c-number field when you go to the classical limit.
- High energies necessarily correspond to short wavelengths, not
- large occupation numbers, since the occupation number of a
- neutrino mode is at most 1. That's what is meant by "the
- classical limit for a neutrino is particle-like behavior."
-
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- Matt McIrvin mcirvin@husc.harvard.edu
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