Light and Heat
| Scientific Paper | |
|---|---|
| Title | Light and Heat |
| Read in full | Link to paper |
| Author(s) | John Huang |
| Keywords | Photons |
| Published | 2011 |
| Journal | None |
| No. of pages | 10 |
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Abstract
Heat is the most important energy we need. There are two ways to transport heat. One is called radiation and the other one is by contact. However, people should know that both of them are collisions. You may wonder how can we call a soft touch, the contact of a hot iron or fire, a collision? Even an energy radiation, with very fast speed, is not considered a collision. Because we don't think an energy pack has a boundary so that we should name the radiation related activities as absorption and emission, isn?t it? However, if we consider a photon is a particle, then, collision will be a proper word for radiation. My idea is that if one of the collision parties is a photon, then, the collision is named radiation. If both parties in a collision are photons then the collision is related to the transportation of heat but the possibility of that kind of collisions is so tiny that people can ignore it for the time being. When the technology is ready to detect that kind of collision then people can name it and study it. If at least one of two parties in a collision contains atoms then it is the 2nd way of transporting heat and people can measure the temperature of the party with atoms. I don't have a good name for it yet, let me call it ?contact? for now. I will explain my definition in more detail.
Light is a pulse or a ray of photons. Light is a wave and photons move along a cycling path. However, if photons have no charge, then people should not say light is electromagnetic wave (EM wave), isn't it? Only if photons have charges, the name of EM wave can make some sense. I will say even if photons have charges, the name of EM wave is still a miss guiding. The main reason is a photon may go to a direction that nothing is before it, but a cycling electronic field makes sense only when there is another photon around that moving photon. Isn't it? Light is the main topic of my paper. I will show you how people misunderstand the light in more detail.
