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ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES

 

It has become increasingly clear that an electron produces a half-wave of light during its rotation (turn-around) at the end of a movement which is part of its vibration as it falls to a lower energy state within an atom. Such rotations are direction changes causing the mouth of the vortex to turn (rotate) 180 degrees. Between rotations, the electron is moving linearly and the time of this movement creates the frequency of the photon being produced.

The energy of each half-wave is "h/2t" (Planck's constant) divided by two and time. This energy is the same for all half-waves regardless of the photon's frequency. The spacing between end-point rotations is what governs the frequency.

A photon with a higher frequency will have been produced by an electron with faster transit time between turn-arounds. A lower-frequency photon will have been produced by an electron with slower transit time between turn-arounds.

This results in an energy of "hf" for a one second (man-measured) photon where "f " is the frequency. Natural photons (those made by nature - which do not happen in one second) may or may not have higher energies that any particular one-second measure. The real measure of photon energy is "h/2t" multiplied by all of the half-waves produced in one period of production.

This does not mean that a higher-frequency photon is any less energetic within the short period of time that it exists. In fact, such short-period photons such as x-rays can shake things up quite well because they do a lot in a very short time.
 

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