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Re: Photons

Nexus Replicant wrote:

How come a photon can pick up another photon (of same frequency) stored
in an excited electron orbiting a nucleus (induced transitions). How come
the
stored photon gets picked-up. What would be wrong if it did not happen.

I am not sure the phrase "pick up" is appropriate, unless it is
used in a poem about "mister laser".