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Which part of the lightlike geodesic's infinite relativity trajectories does my toaster glow come from?
by CyberDildonics 4y ago
Which part of the lightlike geodesic's infinite relativity trajectories does my toaster glow come from?
- raattgift 4y agoThe whole glow? Treat it classically, it's mostly a solid-state physics problem. One individual photon, treated quantum mechanically? From a single inelastic interaction between a free electron and a metal cation. That origin marks one end of the photon's worldline. Repeating for large numbers of photons will make you quickly bored, so you'll probably want to look into the Stefan-Boltzmann law (which still includes the constant c and Planck's constant) and the concepts in Bohr's correspondence principle and effective theory. More at <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joule_heating https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joule_heating> if you're curious.