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Originally Posted by renormalised
No offense taken. However despite the fact that there's really nothing there (adds a whole new meaning to the term "airhead"!!!   ), the photons that strike that dust grain acts as if they've bounced off a brick wall. Remember....Heisenberg . Where you get PE, the old electron gets the shaft and booted out of the house |
The incoming photons only interact with, and are absorbed by (rather than "bouncing off" anything), an electron shell and then an electron is emitted.
But I was actually addressing your assertion that the incoming energy (photons) collide with and bounce off the atoms on the outside of the dust mote, when in fact they could and do interact with
any of the atoms within it.
Hey Carl, I laughed when you referred to Heisenberg, because I once met the man after a lecture back in the early '70s, and for years I was on good terms with his son, although I've since had no contact with that particular Heisenberg in more than a decade.
Science can indeed be a very small world at times!
