Compton won the Nobel Prize in 1927 for his derivation of this effect. It is light interacting with matter. The first interpretation is that the high energy of an electromagentic wave is transfered to the electron in the atom causing its energy transition and the high energy wave as a result increases in wavelength and flies off in a different direction. The inverse Compton effect is when the electron gives light more energy. This is a borrowing of energy from light to matter and matter to light.
The second interpretation of the Compton effect is that the atomic electron absorbs the high energy electromagnetic wave undergoing energy transition and emitting in a different direction the large leftover energy in the form of a new high energy EM wave. The process may repeat if the energy of light is high enough. The inverse Compton effect in this interpretation would be light being absorbed and reemitted at higher energy where the extra energy comes from the electron.
I won one of two Nobel prizes in Physics 2008 for explaining the new phenomenon of light interacting with free electrons collapsing their wave functions temporarily. There is a period where the electron is waveless after it has scattered light. This is a waveless state of matter outside the atom.
I hypothesize that any exchange of energy from light to matter in the atom collapses matter's wave function. Compton scattering and "quantized" energy absorption of light is a point of wave function collapse in the atom and is the source of a temporary waveless state of matter there. The electron's wave function goes flat during energy transition in the atom.
My theory is new form of Quantum Electro Dynamics or the extension of the theory of the interaction between light and the electron. It will be extended to the interaction of electromagnetic radiation with all electromagnetic matter.
Mitch Raemsch Twice Nobel Laureate 2008
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Two more Two Slit experiments must be performed on: protons and neutrons. It is my belief that the neutron is not electromagnetic and will not undergo wave function collapse in the Two Slit experiment with a light source at the holes.
The question remains: what is the mode of transfer of energy from light to electron in the Compton effect? I believe an electron could move through the energy density of the light wave absorbing its "spread out" energy to itself. Matter moves through light stealing some of its energy by drawing it in along the way through.
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