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Old 10-May-2005, 06:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Normandy6644
IG plasma, by definition, is not full of bound electrons but rather free particles. A photon hitting an electron in the IG plasma causes a collision, Compton Scattering. The only way the photon loses energy is if its direction is changed as a result of the collision. There is no absorption or emission taking place.
Compton applies to bound electrons, can you apply it to a 'free' electron in plasma?
No, but Lyndon claims you can, because he believes the free electrons in plasma are somehow bound to the plasma in the same way as they are bound in a crystaline lattice. (if you haven't gotten that far in the thread yet.) He's was asked in the other thread to provide a QM workup for his claims (to show it was possible), but he never produced one.
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