Affiliation:
1. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute for Pulsed Power and Microwave Technology (IHM) , P.O. Box 3640 , 76021 Karlsruhe , Germany
Abstract
Abstract
In a microscopic model of the photoelectric effect, it becomes clear that the conservation of energy is exclusively determined by Doppler shift processes, i.e., the whole energy of the photon vanishes by means of Doppler redshifts. Accordingly, if a photon is generated, the energy is won by Doppler blueshifts. This is supposed to be valid for all processes with energy conservation. An experiment is carried out to make this Doppler energy flow visible by means of interactions with probes. The result of this experiment is that a weak force is measurable in the vicinity of processes with energy conservation. With the aid of a twisted rubber-driven low-power device (
P
˜
=
10
W
\tilde{P}=10\hspace{.5em}\text{W}
), periodic accelerations and decelerations of about 10−6 m/s2 are measurable. In the close vicinity of the device, accelerations with values up to 10−3 m/s2 can be concluded. The consequences that result from this force are discussed.
Subject
General Physics and Astronomy