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To: ETL

No. The amount of energy contained in a photon (one of those “droplets” of energy) is always a multiple of Planck’s Constant.

This is why electrons have the orbitals they do in atoms. An electron can only absorb or emit energy in quanta (determined in part by Planck’s Constant), meaning that they can only jump from one orbital to another. This is what Einstein got his Nobel Prize for... his description of black-body radiation via quanta.


96 posted on 06/01/2015 8:42:58 AM PDT by Charles H. (The_r0nin) (Hwaet! Lar bith maest hord, sothlice!)
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To: Charles H. (The_r0nin)

Thanks for the explanation. Are you in the field?


97 posted on 06/01/2015 8:58:27 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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