Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile · Search for Wavefronts in alt.philosophy
Author: z
Date: May 15, 2008 13:22
... particle with momentum p corresponds to a plane wave filling all of space, with no definite position at all. It doesn't matter which way the momentum points; that just determines how the wavefronts are oriented. Since the wave is everywhere, the photon can be created by one particle and absorbed by the other, no matter where they are. If the momentum transferred by the wave points in the...
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