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From: logajan@ns.UUCP (John Logajan x3118)
Newsgroups: rec.ham-radio,sci.electronics
Subject: Radio Wavicles
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Date: 2 Sep 88 17:38:26 GMT
Organization: Network Systems Corp. Mpls MN
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We generally associate radio transmission with wave properties.  But we
also know that such emissions have photonic-particle like properties.

The point I have trouble seeing is how to explain continuous frequency
change in terms of discrete photons.  Frequency shifting is easy to
visualise from a waveform point of view -- but in a particle point of
view, isn't one forced to make the assumption that frequency shifting
can only occur in quantum steps -- that there is no such thing as a
continuously smooth frequency change.

Perhaps I should have used the term "discrete steps" rather than quantum
steps, since I didn't mean to imply that each step was constrained to be
any specific "leap" from the previous.

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