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Ján Lalinský
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You're mixing classical EM theory description with photons, that's why the contradiction.

In classical EM theory, there are no photons. The incoming wave field makes the electron oscillate. It does give electron energy in one quarter of period, then the electron gives energy back to EM field in the following quarter of period, then the field gives energy to the electron again, and so on. After many periods of oscillation, the electron has about the same energy (depending on the current phase of oscillation); it does not absorb energy systematically.

In the naive billiard photon model of the Thomson scattering, the incoming photon disappears near the electron and new photon of almost the same frequency and possibly different direction appears.

You're mixing classical EM theory description with photons, that's why the contradiction.

In classical EM theory, there are no photons. The incoming wave field makes the electron oscillate. It does give electron energy in one quarter of period, then the electron gives energy back to EM field in the following quarter of period, then the field gives energy to the electron again, and so on. After many periods of oscillation, the electron has about the same energy (depending on the current phase of oscillation); it does not absorb energy systematically.

In the naive billiard photon model, the incoming photon disappears near the electron and new photon of the same frequency and possibly different direction appears.

You're mixing classical EM theory description with photons, that's why the contradiction.

In classical EM theory, there are no photons. The incoming wave field makes the electron oscillate. It does give electron energy in one quarter of period, then the electron gives energy back to EM field in the following quarter of period, then the field gives energy to the electron again, and so on. After many periods of oscillation, the electron has about the same energy (depending on the current phase of oscillation); it does not absorb energy systematically.

In the naive billiard photon model of the Thomson scattering, the incoming photon disappears and new photon of almost the same frequency and possibly different direction appears.

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Ján Lalinský
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You're mixing classical EM theory description with photons, that's why the contradiction.

In classical EM theory, there are no photons. The incoming wave field makes the electron oscillate. It does give electron energy in one quarter of period, then the electron gives energy back to EM field in the following quarter of period, then the field gives energy to the electron again, and so on. After many periods of oscillation, the electron has about the same energy (depending on the current phase of oscillation); it does not absorb energy systematically.

In the naive billiard photon model, the incoming photon disappears near the electron and new photon of the same frequency and possibly different direction appears.