Because this method has incurred in clearly even ridiculously wrong results
------------------------------------------------ by Bingcheng Zhao
Core reminding (!): the very fact, which is that the ratio of the momentum of a photoelectron to the momentum of an incident photon is equal to 241 in an example of ‘ultraviolet light of wavelength 150 nm falls on a chromium electrode’ about photoelectric effect, will be tangibly helpful to digesting and accepting another proven fact: the current method of calculating the momentum of photon (P = E/c) has been shown to be clearly and undeniably wrong, and proven mechanistically thus essentially wrong (P. 262 ~ 270, 3.5.3, Ch.3A, reference #1).
Related knowledge: the newly established and verified electron-photon momentum relation (equation) (P. 258 ~ 262, 3.5.1 and 3.5.2, Ch.3A, reference #1; http://mechanism-revealedphysics-bcz6.blogspot.com/ ), because of its revealing and quantifying the relation in momentum between electron and its emitting photon, is the diagnosing tool to tell whether the current method of calculating the momentum of photon is right or wrong.
Proving that the current method of calculating the momentum of photon is clearly and undeniably wrong, and is mechanistically thus essentially wrong (P. 262 ~ 270, 3.5.3, Ch.3A, reference #1). The newly established electron-photon momentum relation (equation) clearly shows that the current method of calculating the momentum of photon underestimates the momentum of photon by the factor of c/v (*where v is the orbiting velocity of the electron that emits photon, c is the speed of light in vacuum). This conclusion is undeniably supported with two experimental evidences. (i) The evidence from citing the data in Compton scattering: the momentum of scattered electron is significantly greater than that of incident photon when its momentum is calculated according to the current method (P. 263 ~ 266, 3.5.3 b), Ch.3A, reference #1). (ii) The evidence from citing the data in photoelectric effect: the ratio of the momentum of a photoelectron to the momentum of an incident photon, when its momentum is calculated with the current method, is equal to 241 in an example of ‘ultraviolet light of wavelength 150 nm falls on a chromium electrode’ (P. 266 ~ 268, 3.5.3 c), Ch.3A, reference #1). Fundamentally, the current method of calculating the momentum of photon has been proven to be mechanistically thus essentially wrong, because its foundation turns out (proven) to be mechanistically thus essentially wrong (P. 268 ~ 270, 3.5.3 d), Ch.3A, reference #1).
The key to understanding of the proven fact that the current method of calculating the momentum of photon is clearly and undeniably wrong, and mechanistically thus essentially wrong: (1) the current method of calculating the momentum of photon has incurred in clearly even ridiculously wrong results, as the consequence that the current method of calculating the momentum of photon substantially underestimates the momentum of photons ---- in analogy, the mistake in the current method calculating the momentum of photon is as clear and obvious as that a 2-kg hen has delivered a 5-kg egg (P. 265, Table 3-2, reference #1). (2) Postulate-based quantum physics is utterly unable to solve the fundamentally most important problem ---- why and how photons (tiny discrete light quanta) get their velocity from the very electron emitting them. (3) The fundamentally important question: since photons are emitting from electron, a fundamentally important question is that: is there and what is the relation in momentum between electron and its emitting photon (i.e., the momentum of an electron vs. the momentum of its emitting photon)?
Available clue can be helpful to digesting and accepting the proven fact that the current method of calculating the momentum of photon is clearly and undeniably wrong, and mechanistically thus essentially wrong: the inconsistency in the logical reasoning molded within the paradigm of postulate-based quantum physics: the energy of a photon comes from the energy of the electron emitting that photon, whereas the momentum of a photon has nothing to do with the momentum of the electron emitting that photon, i.e., the current method of calculating the momentum of photon utterly cuts off the relation in momentum between electron and its emitting photon.
Four pieces of related information: (1) the newly discovered and verified law of orbiting electron periodic impulse emitting photons (OEPIEP law) (P. 193 ~ 214, Ch.2A, reference #1; http://mechanism-revealedphysics-bcz4.blogspot.com/ ). OEPIEP law reveals the mechanism of why and how photons get their velocity from the electron emitting them, and solves the fundamentally important problem of why there are quantum states. (2) Establishing electron-photon momentum relation (equation) (P. 258 ~ 262, 3.5.1 and 3.5.2, Ch.3A, reference #1; http://mechanism-revealedphysics-bcz6.blogspot.com/ ). (3) Unifying the wave-particle dual natures of light, with the newly discovered and verified OEPIEP law (P. 218 ~ 222, 2.7, Ch.2B, reference #1; http://mechanism-revealedphysics-bcz11.blogspot.com/ ). (4) Mechanism-Revealed Physics, Bingcheng Zhao (http://mechanism-revealedphysics-bcz71.blogspot.com/ ).
Reference #1: 2009, Bingcheng Zhao, From Postulate-Based Modern Physics to Mechanism-Revealed Physics [Vol. 1(1/2)], ISBN: 978-1-4357-4913-9.
Reference #2: 2009, Bingcheng Zhao, From Postulate-Based Modern Physics to Mechanism-Revealed Physics [Vol. 2(2/2)], ISBN: 978-1-4357-5033-3.
Ph.D., Bingcheng Zhao,
The author of “From Postulate-Based Modern Physics to Mechanism-Revealed Physics”
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