Recent content by akaSmith

You can't ban a set of moving axes and I'm staying in the observer's frame.

Physicists are forced to conclude photons have zero rest mass because SR multiplies their mass by infinity using the Lorentz factor.

So you can't apply the Lorentz factor to give photons mass and they have no energy?

An inertial frame is a mathematical construct that moves at a constant velocity v. This can take any real value including c. You can't ban inertial frames that you don't like. Nor can you apply the part of SR you like and ignore the part that's nonsense.

Where does Einstein say in his 1905 paper that SR does not apply to light?

I'm not transferring into the photon's rest frame. I'm using SR's predicted time rate, as seen by an observer in their rest frame, not the photon's frame. Does the prediction work or not?

OK, let's talk about a light beam whose frequency has been measured. Does SR apply to the light or not?

How can a photon have a frequency? Anything moving at the speed of light is predicted to have a zero time rate, e.g. the frequency of a ticking clock would be zero. So no aspect of the light should change along its path - in the same way that no aspect of the moving clock would change. If...