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The magical creation of the photon.

I'm going to describe what I know of the process that produces the infrared photon and let someone fill in the gaps that I have or correct anything I have wrong.

I have two hydrogen atoms on a collision course at some low velocity. When the fields of each atom get to some point in their approach each electron jumps to a higher energy level and then as they began to separate each electron falls back to the lower energy level and creates a complete infrared waveform with a crest and trough. Could someone please elaborate on this to give us a good description of each step in this event?


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