From: John Clark (jonkc@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Mon Sep 18 2000 - 14:47:43 MDT
Michael S. Lorrey <retroman@turbont.net> Wrote;
>>Me:
>>Please explain how a gamma ray photon could blow a radio photon away.
> Gamma ray photon hits radio photon, cancels out energy of said photon, or merly
> knocks it down to a lower frequency (or up to a higher frequency). If the signal
> is frequency modulated, your signal loses resolution.
No. Gamma ray and radio photons are both bosons, they have integer spin so they
are not bound by The Pauli Exclusion Principle. Two photons can be in the same
quantum state but no two particles with half integer spin, like electrons, can be.
It's a good thing that things don't work as you suggest, if photons had half integer spins
and thus could not be in the same place at the same time then you couldn't see the moon
or the stars or even the man sitting next to you. Photons from an object you wanted to look
at would collide and be hopelessly scrambled by photons moving at right angles to them.
You'd be blind as a bat.
Well ok, I have heard of some theoretical work that if the Gamma rays were intense enough,
and I mean intense, the sort of thing you only find near a black hole or Gamma ray burster, then
there might be a little scattering, but if you're that near a Gamma ray burster the fact that your
communication network is not working at optimal performance will be the least of your worries.
> Ever heard of radar jamming, john?
What do you think?
> You just are not making your neutradio from the right materials, obviously.
If I give you a magic material that stops neutrinos for your neutradio then you have
to give me a magic material that can stop neutrinos before they ever get to you.
Why all this neutrino business, radio works just fine, if it's nor broken don't fix it.
John K Clark jonkc@att.net
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