The 16th subharmonic would be very weak but I was hoping this line of investigation might reveal if fractional orbitals result in a red shift as the normal emission translates out of the vacuum suppressed region where it originated. Or from another perspective if the 15.4 THZ entering the region is blue shifted as it approaches the f/h... I assume that most of these equipment measurements of frequency and spectrum are an average for a bulk gas not a single atom such that the spectrum shift reported may be far more dramatic if we could single out an individual Rydberg atom? Fran
From: Jones Beene [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 12:43 PM To: [email protected] Subject: EXTERNAL: RE: [Vo]:FYI: Frequency of Hydrogen's 1S-2S transition photon emission determined to within 11 Hertz Well it is a stretch but 2.466/16 = 15.4125 THz ... so if one wanted to force a connection between the two values, then there could be a Rydberg multiple to the degree that the "15 THz" is really rounding off from the slightly higher value :) From: MarkI-ZeroPoint Once they start playing with variations on a theme (different harmonics/subharmonics), I think it will reveal subtleties which QM could only guess at (thus the probabilistic nature of QM). I hope they report other transition frequencies soon! 2,466,061,413,187,018 hertz 2.466061413187018 * 10^15 hertz 2.47 PetaHertz 3 PetaHz = Near UV, wavelength 100nm, just above the visible spectrum.
