Light Drive.

Discussion in 'Physics & Math' started by Jolonar, Jul 5, 2004.

  1. Protagorus Registered Member

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    Since when was it proven that light is made of strictly photons and since when did they have a registerable mass (that is if their mass even exists). Who answered the "Light: particle or wave" question?
     
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  3. Jolonar Being of intellect. Registered Senior Member

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    He get's credit because he was understood. Or, I may not have read your post because others had arrived, or you posted when I was not online for a week or so!

    Well, thanks anyway.

    Regards,
    J.
     
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  5. J_Wilson Registered Member

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    (Sigh.) Protagorus, light is both a particle and a wave.
     
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  7. Pete It's not rocket surgery Registered Senior Member

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    Actually, it appears to be neither (but has properties of both).
     
  8. (Q) Encephaloid Martini Valued Senior Member

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    Protagorus

    You might want to start with Maxwells equations.
     
  9. Jolonar Being of intellect. Registered Senior Member

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    What's with all this 'Protagorus' stuff???
     
  10. Pete It's not rocket surgery Registered Senior Member

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    One critical trait of a good scientist is "attention to detail"...
     
  11. (Q) Encephaloid Martini Valued Senior Member

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    Protagoras was a Greek philosopher.
     
  12. Brandon9000 Registered Senior Member

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    You're barely speaking English, but I'll try to respond. First of all, the term cross anihilation has no meaning that I know of in science, but perhaps you mean destructive interference. Both the existence of destructive interference and the sinusoidal nature of the fields prove only the wave nature of light, not that it has mass.


    You have no experience with nor knowledge of Physics and, additionally, lack the integrity to simply admit it.


    Off topic, childish, and irrelevant.

    What?

    Mass is defined in every high school Physics book in the world, so why should I cut and paste in a definition anyone could find in ten seconds? If you don't know what mass is, then you certainly shouldn't be declaring accepted science to be false. Theories in Physics are never revised by people who know nothing about them.

    Now, one subject I know nothing at all about is medicine. Yet there is nothing to actually stop me from posting gibberish on medical sites and telling the doctors that they're ignorant fools, but we all know how much value that would have.
     
  13. (Q) Encephaloid Martini Valued Senior Member

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    Brandon

    You have no experience with nor knowledge of Physics and, additionally, lack the integrity to simply admit it.

    Welcome. I see you've met one of our 'gimcracks' and have come to the same conclusions.

    Have fun.
     
  14. Brandon9000 Registered Senior Member

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    Thanks.
     

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