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cragar
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So when you watch those youtube videos and they put a compact fluorescent light bulb
in the microwave and it starts to glow , but how come we get visible light from something that we are shooting microwaves at , it seems like conservation of energy does not hold .
but then when i was reading about florescence , it said that under extreme intensity the electron can absorb 2 photons and then kick it up to the next energy level , so is this what is going on in the microwave with the light bulb . And when you learn about the photo-electric
effect intensity doesn't matter right ? or is this to a point , And can an electron absorb more than 2 photons .
in the microwave and it starts to glow , but how come we get visible light from something that we are shooting microwaves at , it seems like conservation of energy does not hold .
but then when i was reading about florescence , it said that under extreme intensity the electron can absorb 2 photons and then kick it up to the next energy level , so is this what is going on in the microwave with the light bulb . And when you learn about the photo-electric
effect intensity doesn't matter right ? or is this to a point , And can an electron absorb more than 2 photons .