HarveyDeckAstro@mcnees would this scattering be more simply understood as dipole radiation, for which the power is frequency^4? Classical theory seems to be more straightforward in the case of why sky is blue. Rayleigh did not know quantum mechanics, let alone the effective field theory.
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