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To: Right Wing Professor
I didn't ask if they had a color, I asked what color they had.

Are you trying to sound like some sort of great philosopher? It ain't working...

B.S.. I have somewhere around 10^28 electrons in my body. I'm not a mirror.

You asked about a free electron and I gave you the answer. Now you're talking about your body. The electron is in an atom and behaves differently and absorption/emission come into play. But you know this.

What makes you think a stationary electron (leaving aside the fact that a stationary electron cannot be localized at a single point) reflects em waves? Why would it do that?

Your classical em must be even rustier than your QED. An incident em wave's electric field causes an electron to accelerate. That acceleration causes an spherical em wave to be emitted by the electron which is superimposed on the input. You can call it scattering if you like. I prefer reflection because that's what it looks like - an incident em wave enters from, say, the left and a large chunk of the scattered em energy moves back to the left. Why would it do that? I'll throw throw back one of the photonist's answers: because that's what electrons do!

114 posted on 03/13/2003 11:08:12 AM PST by mikegi
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To: mikegi
Are you trying to sound like some sort of great philosopher? It ain't working...

You really don't want to answer that question, do you?

You asked about a free electron and I gave you the answer

Nowhere did I say 'free electron'. Stop making things up. Besides, electrons are indistinguishable particles. A free electron can't be a different color from a bound electron. What color is it?

Your classical em must be even rustier than your QED. An incident em wave's electric field causes an electron to accelerate.

For a guy who's so insistent others answer his questions, you're sure slippery about answering other people's. Let me repeat. Why would a stationary electron reflect e.m. waves?

116 posted on 03/13/2003 11:20:35 AM PST by Right Wing Professor
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To: mikegi
I'll throw throw back one of the photonist's answers:

Photonist?

117 posted on 03/13/2003 11:32:56 AM PST by Physicist (I mean, really: photonist?)
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