(October 5, 2016 at 5:35 am)chimp3 Wrote: So essentially the electron has gathered this energy then releases it in the form of a photon?
Yup. In the language of feynman diagrams, the electron absorbs a bit of energy and "goes off the mass shell" as the jargon says, which means it briefly violates the E=mc^2 relation in order to store the energy which then gets pumpted e.g. into a newly created photon.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
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