Seeing as this thread has cooled off I'll reply to Farsight. Undefined, I'll read your post later. Whether I bother to reply is another matter. And rr6, that sort of post is
exactly what I told you to stop posting. If I hadn't banned you for 3 days before of another thread I'd do it for 7 for that, given it is even more bat shit than the other thread.
It wasn't nonsense. A concentration of energy causes gravity. OnlyMe was wrong to say photons contributing to any gravitational field remains theoretical. Now if you don't mind, we're having an interesting, sincere, and high-level discussion here. You're a moderator. Your job is to prevent ad-hominem abuse, not to permit it and then weigh in with your own and threaten to destroy the discussion. Now can we get on please?
You regularly roll out the "That's an ad hom!" excuse. An ad hom would be if I said something like "Yeah,
you would say that" as a means of trying to counter your argument, ie attacking the person rather than their argument. However, if someone goes on to explain the flaws in your claims, gives examples of your hypocrisy and demonstrates the ignorant of your understanding then it isn't an ad hom. It might not be polite but your posts are retorted for their content, not their author.
And I didn't threaten to destroy the discussion, I threatened to act against you if you continued with hypocritical statements or made assertions which lack any evidence as if they are based on sound rationales. Again, I gave examples of instances where you have acted contrary to such standards in the past, illustrating this isn't some out of the blue position, it is based on past experiences. Furthermore I mentioned the request I regularly make of you, which would provide plenty of relevant discussion and address the criticisms I make of you, if you could only give an answer. I asked you to justify your claims, to provide sound rationale and evidence your claims have any connection to reality. If you could present such a thing, particularly given your non-alignment with the mainstream in regards to the thread topic, quarks, the thread would surely be enriched, right? As such asking you is hardly a derailment, if we were to assume for a moment you could provide an answer. The reason you always act so defensive is that you know you
don't have an answer and thus my question only serves to highlight that the views you hold and claims you espouse lack merit.
My job as moderator is to keep discussions in this sub-forum relatively aligned with the general principle of honest scientific discourse. If someone has questions about the mainstream, fine. If someone has an alternative view then if sufficient evidence can be provided, fine. If someone has an alternative view for which they have no evidence but repeatedly inject into discussion whose topic they have no actual knowledge of, not fine.
You fall under the latter category. You might view your discussion as "interesting, sincere and high level" but if it degenerates to you saying "I am a world leader in this! Go read up on it! I deserve Nobel Prize
s!", even if that is somewhat masked in superficial pleasantries, then my job is to say "Stop". Likewise, if someone claims to be a world expert in something and repeatedly shows they know less than a 1st year undergrad then it is my job to say "Stop".
There is a fine line between challenging the mainstream understanding with enquiring questions and just saying "I'm right, everyone else is wrong! I
understand it, you don't!". As it is my job to ensure people stay on the right side of that line (at least within this sub-forum) I am entirely within my remit to point out when you wander close to or run over that line. Given you almost constantly skim said line it seems every now and again you need to be told very clearly.
Your answer has nothing to do with the photon not having electric charge. As you were allready told, the interraction involving matter and photon is $$qA_{\mu}\psi\psi^{\dagger}$$ with q being the matter charge. I guess you never learned quantum field theory and/or QED since you don't know what is the $$A_{\mu}$$ part of the interraction if you cite the complaint of Feynmann which has nothing to do with the photon not interracting with photons (there is no $$A_{\mu}A^{\mu}$$ in the QED lagrangian).
The answer that you gave against what I said to you about the Aharonov Bohm effect is like if you would have answerd me that the sky is blue. It is true but totally irrelevant.
Farsight likes to talk about the A-B effect, the 4-potential of the photon, Feynmann and how he (Farsight) is a world leading expert in electromagnetism, even more so than Dirac, but he does not understand the details of those areas you mention, he has only layperson simplifications others have provided him via books aimed at the general public. From that, and despite having no experimental data either, he's managed to "
understand" it all....