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Thomas2 said:Maybe I have studied special relativity just better and deeper than you have and have in fact a better insight and grasp of it (remember, everything is relative). But the 'mass' issue raised above is anyway only a semantic problem here. The important point is that a consequent application of the energy- and momentum conservation laws should not enable photoionization at all with the particle picture, whereas on the other hand the wave model is in fact consistent with the short times required for photoionization if one considers the wave-atom interaction properly (as shown on my page http://www.physicsmyths.org.uk/photons.htm ).
Correction: a bastardizaton of the energy-momentum conservation laws will not allow for the photon picture to work. A CORRECT application of it will. You have made ZERO reference to spicer's work, and all the subsequent advancement in photoemission spectroscopy in the study of materials. If all of these were based on the WRONG principles, there's zero reason why they work so accurately in determining the electronics properties of materials (open any photoemission text). This fact seems to be glaringly omitted in your criticism.
And please stop using your webpage as a reference. It's all "relative", remember? Having a webpage requires ZERO knowledge of physics. Just look at Crank Dot Net. If you think having webpages is how physics is done, then you've revealed an additional level of ignorance.
Zz.