Question

The transition rate of electrons from the first excited state of the hydrogen atom to
the ground state is -10°/s. What is the minimum range of energies of the resulting
photons that are emitted?​

Answer 1

Answer:

I am writing a paper for a conference titled: The Nature of Light: What are Photons? It would be very helpful to obtain an idea about how this group of scientists visualize a photon propagating in a vacuum. There are no right or wrong answers. You can give either a detailed answer or merely choose one of the following four photon descriptions. A) The Copenhagen interpretation where a packet of energy discontinuously jumps to form waves of probability. B) The de Broglie model where a packet of energy has a pilot wave which steers the packet of energy. C) A distributed electromagnetic wave which propagates in an empty vacuum. The particle property appears because the energy collapses to a point when absorbed. D) A distributed electromagnetic wave propagating like a quantized transverse sound wave in the quantum mechanical medium of highly energetic vacuum (zero point energy). The particle property appears because the energy collapses to a point when absorbed.