"When an electron is hit by a photon of light, it absorbs the quanta of energy the photon was carrying and moves to a higher energy state. One way of thinking about this higher energy state is to imagine that the electron is now moving faster, (it has just been "hit" by a rapidly moving photon). But if the velocity of the electron is now greater, it's wavelength must also have changed, so it can no long stay in the original orbital where the original wavelength was perfect for that orbital-shape."

Professor John Blamire, electrons and energy, BIOdotEDU

http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/bc/ahp/LAD/C3/C3_elecEnergy.html

I have never seen the mechanism of this, that a neutral photon is absorbed by two positive and negative electrical charges. Do you know the mechanism of this?

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