🚀 go-pugleaf

On 6 Dec 1996, Dirk Faber  wrote:

> > You seem to be completely ignoring the
> > effects of time dilation and length contraction which are at the heart
> > of special relativity.  As velocity increases time decrease until
> > light speed is attained when time grounds to a complete stop.  The
> > length also decrease as velocity increase until at light speed the
> > distance between the photon of light and everything in the universe is
> > zero.  You could say that time has no meaning for an electromagnetic
> > wave or that the wave touches everything in the universe at once.
> > 
> Quit a statement, wouldn't you say? Kindly explain doppler shifts in
> starlight.
> If it touches everything at once, how come it doesn't touch 2 detectors at
> once.

I think he means that it touches the same object at everytime (maybe I've 
misinterpreted).  But that wouldn't explain energy there one minute and not 
the next.  I've also heard/been taught that photons do have mass, 
although _very_ little (how does light reflect off of a mirror?  By 
bouncing off?  How can a beam of light act like a stream of particles 
without have particle-like properties? It would have to have substance 
and therefore mass for that to happen).  Maybe we need a new property to 
apply to energy/matter that would explain these inconsistencies?  Maybe 
we're trying to understand more than our brains were designed to handle?  
Maybe we just don't know enough yet to make absolute statements about the 
behaviour of energy/matter?  Who cares?  It's fun anyway!

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