I was refering to your change in the understanding that the speed of light is different for different mediums. You wrote earlier in your this thread:In reply to origin #77, re: Definitions.
I have not "modified" my interpretations of energy and matter. I presented a very simple lab-type example in an attempt to "explain" what or how I interpret a constant factor.
Did you actually write (#16) that c varies according to a relative media? Because I'm sure that you did! "The speed of light varies in different media" (paraphrase) Now just "who is zooming who?" This one statement of yours is completely wrong.
After you were presented with evidence to the contrary you posted:
With regard to the last "boldface" query (longer period of TIME thru ten meters of water vs. vacuum) the answer is YES...YES IT "TAKES LONGER".
Again as I said earlier this is a good thing! Eduations is wonderful.
No, I don't find it unusual. If the speed of light in the vacuum was anything other than c it would be mind boggling!!I think you COMPLETELY missed the intent of the "glass panels/vacuum" model. The "larger" issue, if you like. The "issue" is that when light exited the glass and entered the vacuum, light became c AGAIN! You do not see this as something unusual, and I do.
I don't know what that meansIt is THE ACTIONS that mean something, not "299,792,458 m/s" !!! (do you seriously think I am unaware of the "proper way" to "write something?" I wrote a "quick reply" to Kittamaru!)
In what manner, by what mechanism, did light become c in a vacuum again? How? The "light" in the model was "slowed" (as measured by time intervals) and then regained it's "true speed" as it entered a vacuum! There was no "delay" factor.
I supplied you a link that explained this. As the light passes through glass for example the photons are absorbed by the electrons in the in the glass and then reemited. In between the times that the photon is being absorbed and reemitted by the electron the photon is traveling at c. So when the photons are in the glass due to the absorption and reemition be the electrons there is an ovrall slowing of the light through the glass. Again, while the photon is 'free' it is moving at c. So when the photon exits the glass to a vacuum since the photon is not being absorbed and reemitted by anything the speed is c.
If you mean the speed is right back to c as it leaves the glass, I agree.The c of light was instantaneous in the vacuum, and this is what I am trying to illustrate.
Answered aboveBy what mechanism does energy maintain c ? Given that it was "slowed" by a media?
Answered earlier in the post..Is the energy responding to the presence of a quantum "pressure gradient" mandated by vacuum? I cannot see this, myself. It implies that any external factor relative to energy can influence the energy, and further implies that energy will comply to an external force. This concept would mean that energy has "matter-like" properties, and I cannot force myself to see this as a true condition, no matter how many examples seem to "prove" otherwise.
You mean before you hit submit there paragraph does not have all the spaces in it? That's weird.P.S...I cannot figure out the "why" of my writing being transposed and fractionated when I hit "quick reply". What am I not doing right?