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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (59757)	2/5/2007 12:02:18 PM
From: kelseysuncle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197300

Maurice, I usually enjoy your rants but please don't invent new chemistry to bolster your arguments. Kelseysuncle, you are saying that photons don't know each other exist, which is sort of true... Sorry, it IS true, not sort of. ...in that they can just pass through each other and generally behave independently. But they are waves and they superimpose.... and interfere, but give rise to net, observable effects only if the two waves are of very nearly the same frequency. A 300 nanometer, ultraviolet wave oscillates 500,000 times before a 2 GHz wave oscillates once. The UV wave has a period of 1 femtosecond. Any superposition or interference cycles from positive to negative each femtosecond. ...There are lots of Google links about it after a few minutes clicking around. There are also lots of excellent textbooks that delve into the mathematics of interference in detail. ...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. Chemistry doesn't work that way, particularly not the kind of chemistry you seem to be trying to talk about. If there is enough energy around to make a reaction go, it goes. It doesn't magically happen when it gets one millionth more energy. 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. Why imagine? If you actually do the measurements and draw the graph you find that it is, yes, a smooth curve but that curve is best described by exponential growth laws. The number of chemical reactions that occur increases by an order of magnitude for every 10 degrees of temperature rise. At a milliwatt input the number of reactions that occur is close enough to zero to be negligible. But that photon might* just be right there where a carcinogen molecule was a pico nano joule...* And in golf, a 55 year old 17 handicapper might win the US Open. It could happen, but I sure wouldn't want to make any decisions, financial or otherwise, based on it actually happening. Best, ku