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Just, make it so
Authored by: Ian Al on Tuesday, April 02 2013 @ 03:45 AM EDT
{I think you're confusing things. Electricity is carried in a conductor by
electrons. Radio waves & light are carried by photons. If you connect an
AC source, including the power system, to an antenna, such as over head power
lines, the electrical energy is converted to electromagnetic energy that is
carried by photons. When you hold up a fluorescent bulb, it acts as an
antenna,
receiving some of the transmitted power and that enery excites the lamp,
producing visible light.}

That is the conundrum. Are there two things in the Universe: matter and energy?
I've heard it said that matter can be converted to energy and vice versa. When
matter gives off energy, what part of the matter is changed? If energy holds
matter together, is it heat energy or electrical energy or gravimetric energy
and are they the same substance or are they different? What elements of matter
are responsible for storing and radiating each form?

When electrons pass through an LED, where do the photons come from? Are photons
just energy that can appear as particulate? What is reduced in the LED when the
photons leave? Is it the charge on the electrons? The charge on an electron is
constant at one electron volt. Where does the energy carried by the photon come
from and what contains it before it transfers to the photon?

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Regards
Ian Al
Software Patents: It's the disclosed functions in the patent, stupid!

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