Re: Quantum Leap

[William Beaty <billb@ESKIMO.COM>]

On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, John Cooper wrote:

>   Originally the emphasis of 'quantum jump' was on 'jump', the
> discontinuity in available values of the energy.

Speaking of which...  I got involved in a late night gab-fest with Dan Y.,
a local electrical engineer, regarding the modeling of atoms as
electrically short dipole resonator/antennas.  It's a classical/waves
atomic model, in other words.  He pointed out that if the "Q" of an atom
is high, then the time constant is long, and it takes far longer for the
atom to accumulate energy from the EM fields of the light waves.  If the
"Q" of the atom is infinite, then it cannot accumulate energy at all.

Huh.

When an atom intercepts a quantum of light, apparantly it does *not*
specifically behave as a classical resonator (well, at least the "Q" of
the capacitor/inductor could not be huge!)  Perhaps there is a
connection between infinite "Q" and the need for "quantum leaps."  Or,
when a macroscopic resonator is going into exponential growth as it
intercepts energy via the "Energy Sucking Antenna" process, perhaps the
infinite "Q" of the RLC circuit impacts the speed of such growth.

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