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Saturday, November 8, 2014

No Dispersion

The same B field interactions between photons travelling down a beam is attractive.


By this alone, a light beam does not disperse.  From a previous post "τo The New Guy On The Block", it was proposed that hot bodies repel each other.

FT=TaTb4πτor2

where  Ta and Tb are the temperatures of the two bodies involved.  This is the repulsive force that is responsible for the dispersion of light.

Taken together, this would suggest that the spread of a light beam in free space is dependent on temperature.  At higher temperature a beam disperse wider than when the ambient is at low temperature.