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| Beauty Is Ocean Deep |
I. Background
In the first post of this series, about six years ago, the Photon Class (C++ programming language) was introduced (Quantum Oceanography).
Today, I want to continue to detail how that works, but remember that the major endeavor in preparing graphs, as was done in the appendices of the previous two posts, is to download billions of in situ measurements and then process them (The World According To Measurements - 22). So, let's use some WOD user manual values for maximum, minimum temperature and salinity values for seawater at various locations around the globe (see graphs in Appendix 1 and Appendix 2).
I've averaged those WOD maximum and minimum values, added actual in situ values at central latitude and longitude locations of each featured ocean and sea, then calculated the potential enthalpy and photon mole (mol) count using the TEOS-10 C++ software and the Photon Class.
In other words, I used the same fundamental calculation procedure as was recently used in Quantum Oceanography - 19 and Quantum Oceanography -20.
In another series on Dredd Blog the concept of "saturation", as applied to ocean heat content, was considered (see e.g. The Saturation Chronicles - 20).
All of that "sets the stage".
II. Quantum Saturation
"Quantum saturation" is a phenomenon that takes place at the atomic level where an atom absorbs a photon:
"A fundamental aspect in this domain is the absorption of photons by atoms, a core quantum-mechanical process characterized by an atom transitioning from a lower to a higher energy state, the excited state, upon photon absorption."
(Examples of atoms absorbing photon). "Saturation" in this context is when the absorption exceeds the atoms normal photon absorption quantity.
To compensate, one or more photons will be radiated to bring the energy level of the atom back to the non-saturated level (see e.g. Saturated absorption spectroscopy).
A similar "saturation" dynamic takes place when seawater atoms/molecules "spontaneously" emit infrared photons because atoms/molecules at that location contain more stored (absorbed) photons in them than seawater atoms/molecules near them have.
In that realm, equilibrium is the final state of "warm flows to cooler" (see Second Law of Thermodynamics; Heat Transfer).
III. Tracking Quantum Saturation
The graphs in Appendix 1 and Appendix 2 depict the change in moles of photons at various depths in various oceans and seas around the globe.
Yes, believe your eyes, there is a "photon current" (The Photon Current, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 , 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22).
IV. Closing Comment
The quantity of photon moles is constantly changing at all depths of the oceans because the Second Law of Thermodynamics applies everywhere.
The previous post in this series is here.
