What is the only radiation we detect here on Earth that is NOT made of photons?
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Apologies for editing it down to a one liner - I don't think I've seen a reply to this seemingly rhetorical question.
So what's the answer to it ?
What is the only radiation we detect here on Earth that is NOT made of photons?
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Another thing. This is what a PROTON looks like when travelling near light speed(as in an accelerator)...
l direction of travel> It looks like this if it is travelling toward or away from you... O
This is what a PHOTON looks like as it is travelling AT light speed...
l or . direction of travel> It looks like this if it is travelling toward or away from you... l or this... - or anywhere between the two.
The proton is actual mass with three dimensions but near light speed distance in the direction of travel shrinks until, at just below light speed(which no mass can ever reach)it looks like a little disk perpendicular to direction of travel.
The photon(which has no mass) is a wave of electro-magnetic energy frozen in time, it has no dimension in the direction of travel(as it is AT lightspeed)therefore it looks like a flat line travelling through space. If you align this little flat line in the other two dimensions with all the other photons around it, that is polarized light. But that polarization must be imposed on that light at it's creation because you cannot change any characteristic of a photon once it is travelling. Sunglasses are polarized, but they do not change the light, they just filter out those photons not aligned with the glasses polarization.
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To say so inevitably means that the existing understandings, theories etc have to be discounted first. This means that if what is being proposed is radical [yet possibly valid] would require it's proponents to have enormous qualification. I mean by this that a person wishing to overturn such a wealth of scientific history needs to know and justify everything he states. This would require not only a university professorship but about 100 years of full time intellectual study and about 1000 years+ of argument and debate. In other words...not possible. This is why I worded my web site zero point theory the way I have as I acknowledge that the change if any, must come from the scientists them selves and not me because no matter how qualified and reputed I might be I would fail.QQ - I think I'm reading that you say that photons exist at source and at end, but not in between. Regardless of what science says, why not cut to the chase and say what YOU think happens ?
He is attempting to describe the seeming contradiction that from a mass perspective the photon travels across a vacuum at 'c' but from an photon or "energy" perspective it has no speed and does not travel.Yes, I understand polarised sunglasses, having sat on a few expensive pairs in my time. Still, this ..
.. The photon(which has no mass) is a wave of electro-magnetic energy frozen in time ..
is something I'm trying to get my mind around.
In a more palatable distance scale, if you saw an object 10 feet away from you and it moved 1/8000th of an inch further away from you, would you notice?
So we look over there to look into the past, but aliens over there would look here to see into the past.
To say so inevitably means that the existing understandings, theories etc have to be discounted first. This means that if what is being proposed is radical [yet possibly valid] would require it's proponents to have enormous qualification. I mean by this that a person wishing to overturn such a wealth of scientific history needs to know and justify everything he states. This would require not only a university professorship but about 100 years of full time intellectual study. In other words...not possible. This is why I worded my web site zero point theory the way I have as I acknowledge that the change if any, must come from the scientists them selves and not me because no matter how qualified and reputed I might be I would fail.
The debunk in math alone would run into hundreds if not thousands of volumes. Hopeless.
So to provoke change if any is possible at all, I only have to ask a few salient questions and let the scientist do what they do best.
I am not interested in trying to replace one dogma for another either.
He is attempting to describe the seeming contradiction that from a mass perspective the photon travels across a vacuum at 'c' but from an photon or "energy" perspective it has no speed and does not travel.
On one hand it can be said that the photon does not transit space, but to do so means it has no speed
On the other hand it can be said that it does transit space and that is where the speed of light is found.
So to claim 'c' from a photons perspective is invalid, yet to claim 'c' from a mass perspective is valid.
The conundrum is that to grant a photon the value of 'c' one can only look at it from a mass perspective and that is why the the light effect model is invalid, it proves itself to be so...
It is so confused that no one can get their head around it in the same moment so the logic chases itself all over the place. Hence the constant attacks against SRT IMO
Note: other theories and laws are not subjected to the level of attack that SRT is....by many orders of magnitude.
If I am mistaken I apologize and maybe someone could clarify it.
My question was ..
Regardless of what science says, why not cut to the chase and say what YOU think happens ?
Very true, but for an object 10' away we have the ability to use active/invasive techniques to do the measurement (touch it with a stick, bounce light or sound off of it, etc.). The measurement signal to noise ratio in such a measurement is much better than we can do on an astronomical scale.No, I wouldn't - but with instruments of no great expense or sophisitication, I would.
There is a theoretical device called a "light cone". Essentially, the width of the cone is how far away you can see a certain amount into the past. For example, when you look at the moon, the light cone is only 1 light-second wide. We're not blocked from seeing further back in time, the passage of time has carried the information away. Light from the moon that is older than 1 second has already passed us and traveled out into space. So if you were 2 light-seconds away from the moon, the cone is 2 light-seconds wide.Question - if Mr Alien can look here to see the past, does that not mean that the past is also somehow occulted here ?
The photon(which has no mass) is a wave of electro-magnetic energy frozen in time ..
is something I'm trying to get my mind around.
How wide is a galaxy way over there ? Some light years width
if Mr Alien can look here to see the past, does that not mean that the past is also somehow occulted here ?
Originally Posted by Quantum Quack
He is attempting to describe the seeming contradiction that from a mass perspective the photon travels across a vacuum at 'c' but from an photon or "energy" perspective it has no speed and does not travel.
On one hand it can be said that the photon does not transit space, but to do so means it has no speed
On the other hand it can be said that it does transit space and that is where the speed of light is found.
So to claim 'c' from a photons perspective is invalid, yet to claim 'c' from a mass perspective is valid.
The conundrum is that to grant a photon the value of 'c' one can only look at it from a mass perspective and that is why the the light effect model is invalid, it proves itself to be so...
It is so confused that no one can get their head around it in the same moment so the logic chases itself all over the place. Hence the constant attacks against SRT IMO
Note: other theories and laws are not subjected to the level of attack that SRT is....by many orders of magnitude.
If I am mistaken I apologize and maybe someone could clarify it.
Ah, good. A measured response from you, giving your view on the issue. Informative too.
Let's wait for Grumpy's answer too - and possibly his response to your above.
How wide is a galaxy way over there ? Some light years width
The only radiation that is not made of photons that we can see on Earth are Cosmic rays. I notice QQ ignored the question, mainly as he doesn't have a clue.
In the words of Richard Feynman, "It is important to realize that in physics today, we have no knowledge (of) what energy is. We do not have a picture that energy comes in little blobs of a definite amount.".
andBut remember light travels at 186,000 miles per second(300,000 k/s), a light year is many times the size of our solar system out to Neptune, the Oort cloud is about a light year in diameter, the nearest star over 4 ly away. Seeing a light year's movement on a galaxy a billion light years away is well beyond the ability of any telescope we have yet to conceive
andThe photon has no mass, it is a packet of electro-magnetic energy, it has no mass(and no mass perspective, whatever he meant by that)and has been measured to travel through a distance at a very precise speed(in vacuum), the speed of photons(IE light)
Anything moving AT light speed experiences no passage of time, but the top speed of light means the photon takes time to travel through space from our frame of reference
In the words of Richard Feynman, "It is important to realize that in physics today, we have no knowledge (of) what energy is. We do not have a picture that energy comes in little blobs of a definite amount.".
You state the above with emphatic and complete belief yet there is not a shred of evidence to support the most critical aspect. That being that a photon transits in any perspective.
I'm not sure that's true. It cannot do it yet, but that doesn't mean it's theoretically impossible.The limitations of the scientific method.
One place the scientific method breaks down is the exploration of the human mind. The human mind is the most important tool of science since it is the center of observation, data analysis and theory synthesis. Yet the scientific method cannot be used to fully analyze this important consciousness tool...
One place the scientific method breaks down is the exploration of the human mind
Then prove it... your claim not mineQuantum Quack
If I set up a laser to transmit information, coded information that a television will show as a picture, perhaps, and I transmit between the laser and the receiver, do photons(specific photons in a specific pattern)not travel between them. Of course they do. So you are simply and completely wrong.
until along comes the understanding of zero space with QM's Quantum entanglements and tunneling effects. You are stuck in an ancient 4 dimensional mind set. Get into the real world and include zero dimensional ism.The fact that the photons are being sent and received is obvious(we receive EXACTLY the photons we sent, no doubt about their origin or final outcome). The fact is that every one of those photons are time delayed because of transit time. The time delay is directly proportional to the distance between transmitter and receiver, nothing else. So the deductive conclusions that the photons are moving between the two points at a set speed and that it takes time for photons to travel a distance is fact.
That distance/time relationship works out to 3000,000 K/sec every single time, in all frames. So, you lie when you insist there is no evidence of a photon transiting a distance, whether through complete ignorance(my bet), or evil intent. You insist on this ignorance, so even if it is ignorance driving this brain fart, it is self imposed ignorance. You simply do not know a dang thing about the subject.
As to your bogus challenge, it is impossible to show a photon in transit as a travelling photon is not detectable, else the Universe would be opaque, all we would see would be a fog of transiting photons. We cannot see ANY electro-magnetic energy in transit, it must be absorbed to be detected, meaning they are no longer transiting. So stick your dishonest challenge where the sun don't shine, that's where you got it from.
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Do you have a working radio? Yes.Then prove it... your claim not mine