I understand photons have no rest mass, but I also learned in my physics class p=h/(lambda), and that mass depends on the frequency, my question is why can't something moving at c have rest mass if it can have... momentum I suppose is the term...
sorry, but mathmatically, it is still undefined, consider the inverse operation, what is infinity times 0? certainly not one, or any other number that would be divided by 0... also...
Does light view itself as infinitely dense? (because of the lorentz factor?)
Light just travels it's path, instantaneously, things don't "happen to it" because they all happen to it at the same time, and then, nothing... it's only to you (or another non-light observer) that it gets diffracted over time... though it's an interesting idea of superposition, it's not really...
"it" = acceleration
"see" = observe
"hypothetical" = the situation I mentioned before where one observer is viewing an accelerating chain... note hypothetical can be used as a noun
your saying that it is relative to the path through space time of the observer? And does this mean one can't see these effects of acceleration in the afore mentioned hypothetical?
Okay, I think I understand what your saying Chris, your saying that acceleration (linear) is a curved path in space time right? But now I am confused on another subject, if it is acceleration because of it's curved path, does this mean it is not relative to other observers? I would have thought...
A question has occurred to me that I am unable to answer. Consider a universe without other mater, besides that which is described. In this universe there is one person (you) and a chain (stretched along the x-axis) both accelerating around and aligned on the y-axis one above the other such that...
No I cannot give you reference to a text that refers to it because I was trying to come up with a unique point of view of the speed of light in the hopes that it might resolve or give insight to the quantum world from relativities perspective. I can only say that I have read a lot about photons...
I've been looking at the parts of a photon as it moves at the speed of light and how this affects the photon it's self. I have encountered a few things such as the need for the photon to start spinning as it moves through gravitational fields ECT. But I have recently found 2 things that are very...
But the point was that it could happen an infinite number of times in one second doesn't this raise the probability so that no matter how close to zero it is in one frame that it is extremely of probable. I mean I know tunnling that far in extremely improbable but i was just confused because if...
I have a question about quantum mechanics. I was reading up on probability fields and it occurred to me that if there is a possibility that a subatomic particle may exist in a very unusual place like say jumping from Utah to Ohio in any give frame of time that has yet to happen and you can...