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How many photons can a free electron in a metal can interact with at an instant?

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How many photons can an electron hold at one time?

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Campbell Laughlin, former Engineer, nuclear physicist, creative thinker

Answered Sep 8, 2017 · Author has 318answers and 41.5k answer views

An electron does not hold photons because photons vary in energy by a factor of some 20 orders of magnitude and what is emitted depends on conditions prevailing at that instant.

Simple arithmetic shows the equivalent energy content of the rest mass of an electron is roughly 10^7 photons of infra red.

When we remember what an electron actually is, it is easier to understand where the photon comes from.

The electron is a negative point charge surrounded by a captive, complex e-m field. It is this field that emits a photon when a force causes the charge or the field to accelerate. Emission is as continuous a process as is the absorption of photons from outside the immediate electron and together with this is the primary mechanism of heat transfer within a temperature gradient.

For those who dispute this explanation of an electron, orthodox thinking already accepts that a moving charge will generate a moving magnetic field, and a moving magnetic field will generate a moving electric field, which will generate a moving magnetic field and so on, diminishing. 

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