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Anonymous Fri 12 Nov 16:31:58 2021 No.13845084 View Reply Original Report

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Can a free electron spontaneously emit a photon? I know that photons are emitted when an energised atom goes to the ground state but what about when an electron is just flying around in empty space?

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Anonymous Fri 12 Nov 2021 17:17:54 No.13845223 Report

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>>13845084
It does, check cloud chambers experiments

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Anonymous Fri 12 Nov 2021 17:47:39 No.13845308 Report

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>>13845084
See, the problem is that you are thinking of emission.

Are radio waves a joke to you?

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Anonymous Fri 12 Nov 2021 17:56:57 No.13845329 Report

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>>13845084
No. Just look it from the rest frame of the electron. There's no energy for a photon to carry away.

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Anonymous Fri 12 Nov 2021 18:32:55 No.13845483 Report

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You mean Bremsstrahlung. Yeah, that's how the sun produces light from its core.

Fusion itself does not produce photons. It's all electrons shenanigans

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Anonymous Fri 12 Nov 2021 18:34:22 No.13845490 Report

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It's a free Electron. It takes great effort to set it free from the EM force. Their momentum would be converted to light

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