an atom is an entity, at one time it was considered to be the smallest division of matter, but of course via the raisin cookie, Neils Bohr, and the standard model, more primitive entities were proposed to exist. There are multiple quarks in the standard model... if 2 quarks differ in their...
If there exists more than one primal entity type, must not then those entities have underlying structure indicating more primitive entities, and does this not lead us to the logical conclusion that there must be a single most primitive entity which composes all that is the universe?
1. it does not travel in "exactly" the same direction, reference diffraction, dispersion, scattering etc. how would you measure the progress of individual photons to determine the delay of each?
2. the absorption of the energy of the photon and the re-emission is just one example of propagating...
Does anyone here feel that they are really up on time and space distortion in a gravitational field? I am working on developing a model for a hypothesis and am feeling quite overwhelmed... not so much by the distortion I mentioned, but rather how it would play into my model and how to succinctly...
I think I can simplify this for you... c = the speed of light in a vacuum, if light travels through any substance it encounters atoms and particles, each absorbs and re-emits the photons, there is a propagation delay while this transformation from a photon to a more energetic electron and back...