RE: A trippy thought
Posted: 7/2/2002 11:32:36 PMBy: Comfortably Anonymous
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one potential problem: you're classifying a photon as an "object." it's not clear that this is true. most modern theories classify them as massless, and therefore nonparticipatory in the relativistic equation.
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RE: RE: A trippy thought
Posted: 9/16/2002 1:03:44 PMBy: Comfortably Anonymous
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I argue against this. Most theories I have seen consider it a particle wave, which can contain mass under certain circumstances. This is one of those circumstances. Light IS affected by relativity, there's no escaping it. Even tachyons, which exist in an always-faster than light state, are affected by this: They cannot slow down below the speed of light and still exist.
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