Re: Er, no, gamma rays are not electrons

Posted by moorglade on September 21, 2003 at 17:31:39:

In Reply to: Re: Er, no, gamma rays are not electrons posted by davidmac on September 21, 2003 at 04:01:10:

David, technically energy come's in different ranges, photons can equal an Electron, for example if the Electron has a energy equivilent to a Photon, then if the Electron is equivilent to a mass energy of 500kev, along the spectrum of Electromagnetic Radiation, the Photon can be at the lower Red end, about say 2ev, as photon energy increases upwards to the Gamma end of the spectrum, its energy value exceeds that of the Electron, by many millions of electron volts?

Along the way, photons can create many electrons,interacting energy can convert photons into anything of comparable energy.

Likewise, for the high energy end of EM spectrum, Gamma photons can destroy all lower energies that happen to lay in its path, eventually travelling across the X-ray..ultraviolet energy levels, producing all manner of particle with lesser energies resulting from interactions.

While you say Gamma rays are not Electrons, you are of course correct, they are labeled as High Energy Photons, but they can produce Electrons during collisions as part of a wider energy debris.

I think the doctor is taking this literally, if Electrons come out all alone during interactions this would be a good case for Electrons being Gamma rays, but this is not directly so, it may be a problem the good Dr has with standard experiments and observation ;)

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