All Talk 37 - You say Electrons and I say Photons, Babies exist in different Frequencies

DR. NOSTRUM

Ah, no, no, that's already out of date isn't it?

HUTCHBACK

No.

DR. NOSTRUM

Well it is, it must be out of date cos they're not interested in electrons and that any more

HUTCHBACK

(spluttering) Y.. Of course they're inter.. Electrons allow..

DR. NOSTRUM

They're all passé

HUTCHBACK

Electrons allow electro-magnetism and light.

DR. NOSTRUM

But it's not...

HUTCHBACK

You can't have Light...

DR. NOSTRUM

...it's not electric, is it?

HUTCHBACK

No. You can't have light without electrons.

DR. NOSTRUM

No, you can't have light without photons.

HUTCHBACK

No, electrons.

(long pause as the Dr attempts to digest this)

DR. NOSTRUM

So what are photons? I thought photons were packets of light.

HUTCHBACK

Photons are light particles. But you need electrons in order for light to vibrate, cos light's also a wave.

DR. NOSTRUM

Yeah, a wave's got a frequency, I know.

HUTCHBACK

And it makes electrons vibrate. (big sigh from the DR.) So, until electrons were about it couldn't vibrate, therefore you couldn't see light.

DR. NOSTRUM

It's not that interesting.

HUTCHBACK

It's not that interesting.

DR. NOSTRUM

It's not interesting cos it's all...

HUTCHBACK

It's all meaningless.

DR. NOSTRUM

...indistinct. Yeah, it's all a bit, you know.

HUTCHBACK

It's all about particles.

HUTCHBACK

What I kinda like; I like the idea that we're tuned into a particular frequency, like kind of a radio station, and this is our frequency and then there's all these other frequencies that we're not tuned into. Unless you take loads of drugs.

HUTCHBACK

Mmm.

DR. NOSTRUM

In which case, er, no-one else is tuned into your particular frequency.

HUTCHBACK

Yeah. The Gurning frequency.

DR. NOSTRUM

Well, that, or.. or the one.. Babies. There, we're back to Castenada you see.

HUTCHBACK

Oh no, not Castenada.

DR. NOSTRUM

I'm sure Dr. Kawnholer used to want to prove that babies, when they were born, lived in a different Universe. (Hutchback has started laughing inanely) You know, that they.. they existed in a different reality, er, a different frequency, cos they were looking at something different, in their cross-eyed way.

HUTCHBACK

That's...

DR. NOSTRUM

You don't think that's true?