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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: kelseysuncle who wrote (59755)	2/5/2007 4:33:10 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197283

Kelseysuncle, you are saying that photons don't know each other exist, which is sort of true in that they can just pass through each other and generally behave independently. But they are waves and they superimpose. newton.dep.anl.gov There are lots of Google links about it after a few minutes clicking around. If two waves are superimposed at peaks and absorb at that time in the same spot, the combined energy is dropped out at that spot. The low energy of the pathetic low energy 2GHz is trivial compared with the high energy bond busting level of energy needed, but it's straws that break camel's backs, not large loads. First, you put the big load on, then flick it with your little finger and down it goes. We aren't looking for large scale effects in which every 2GHz photon scores a victory. It's a probabilistic game and days of photons might pass by with nothing happening, then one day two waves combine to do the trick, when the high energy one by itself wouldn't quite have succeeded. <There is no means for a single molecule to absorb a GHz photon that would promote any kind of specific chemical reaction. Further, there simply isn't enough heat available through excitation of collective molecular motions to disrupt or promote biochemical reactions. > It's certainly the case that there isn't any macro heating. Before photon number 2 can drop its pathetic little donation of energy, the first lot of energy is being moved away by blood and fluid flows. But chemical reactions either happen, or don't. They either have enough energy for the instant of contact and potential reaction, or they don't. It's an energy dependent business and any energy added in is a slight help to making the reaction happen. Imagine drawing a graph from zero 2GHz input to 1 kilowatt of 2GHz input and measuring how many reactions happen. There's not a step function. It's a smooth curve of increasing reaction. 1 kilowatt would do macro cooking in a fairly short time with LOTS of chemical reactions going on. 500 watts would make things uniformly pretty hot too. 50 watts would make a measurable temperature increase. 2 watts would be carried away with only a minor temperature increase. 100 milliwatts would take very precise temperature measurement to find any heat. One photon at a time would give a temperature increase only at the point of absorption and that tiny boost would soon spread around, so another photon coming in a short time later would find no residual warmth. But that photon might just be right there where a carcinogen molecule was a pico nano joule away from making the reaction and it would have missed but for that minuscule turbo boost from the 2GHz landing. Tipping the scales, the molecule makes the connection. Mqurice