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An immortal fumble by Androcles (28-Dec-2004)

How to confuse amplitude with wavelength.
>>>>> Tired light is bunk and will be abandoned completely
>>>>> when shown to be experimentally wrong.
>>>>
>>>> Ever looked at ripples on a pond? The height gets ever smaller,
>>>> so that at a great enough distance there is no evidence of the
>>>> splash that caused them.
>>>> Now say
>>>> "Tired ripples is bunk and will be abandoned completely
>>>> when shown to be experimentally wrong."
>>>> Androcles.
>>>
>>> Androcles confuses amplitude with wavelength.
>>
>>> [Old Man]
>>
>> LOL!
>> Old Man confuses wavelength with energy.
>>
>>
>> nu  = c/ lambda
>>
>> E = h (nu)
>>
>> E   = hc / lambda
>>
>> Any arguments?
>> Androcles.
>
> Androcles hasn't presented an argument.  His  water ripple
> analogy is bogus, and his equation for photon energy has
> naught to do with wave amplitude.
>
> The amplitude of an electromagnetic wave decreases with
> distance as 1 / R because its photon number density
> decreases as 1 / R^2 and not because photon energy
> changes.  The wave amplitude decreases while the
> wavelength remains constant.   There is no mechanism
> in electrodynamics for photon energy, and thus wave-
> length, to be other than constant with distance and time.
>
> [Old Man]

Old Man is unaware that lengthening of wavelength is a function
of distance and is incapable of thinking outside the domain he has
been trained in.
Empirical evidence will not be denied.
Androcles.
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