I can't believe you people are STILL arguing about this and haven't banned MacM to finally get rid of this nonsense.
This thread reminds me why exactly I left. Having said that, goodbye to y'all -- still!
He doesn't have a point, that is what makes Mac so charming
Very sad indeed. Oh well, it just takes away the fun of posting on this particular forum, which is something I think is true for many of the more...
Oh no, not another one...
Also remember that on a local galactic scale, everything rotates pretty much like in a solar system (the planets also don't collide, do they?), which...
No, because there is a flaw in your reasoning: time does not speed up to keep the speed of light constant. If you look at it properly, you can say...
The solar wind consists mainly of ejected charged matter (protons); spacecraft using solar wind use the conventional sailing principle of being...
Yes, this is possible, because of conservation of momentum; every time you emit a photon to the back of your spacecraft, you eject p = E/c of...
Where is the paradox ? Much light in the neighbourhood of black holes ? The numbers seem scary ? Remember that a black hole in itself is extremely...
He hasn't got any calculations. He hasn't got any proof. He doesn't understand shit about the paper he thought supports his idea (common, he...
Light can orbit black holes. We would not see it of course (the light doesn't reach us!) so from the moment you spot light orbiting something, you're...
As said before, you need to apply the chainrule. It is probably best understood as follows: You know that d(e<sup>x</sup>)/dx = e<sup>x</sup>. Now...
Oh dear.. you shouldn't have said that 'coz now all hell is gonna break loose again ;)
It is generally accepted that there were only photons in the universe right (read: the first 100.000 years) after the big bang. Good question. I...
It is more appropriate to think of wavefronts when you are talking about energy being radiated for light. If it is directed light (e.g. through a...
"Relativistic mass" is not "mass" in the way you interpret "mass". What you mean by "mass" is rest mass. Photons do not have rest mass, nor can they...
I didn't try anything when I posted the hint; usually the approach for avoiding problems with functions like x^x is to rewrite them as exponentials,...
Oh BTW, James, do us all a favor and close this thread... nothing productive is going to come from it anymore. You should probably wait until...
Yes Mac, that is exactly it. I confess, I am your technical inferior. All this time it was *I* who was bullshitting. You are so incredibly...
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