Hi 98operate!
You ask an interesting question. In case tiny-tim's answer was difficult to follow, let me try to answer more conceptually (though perhaps with less precision). If photons were classical objects, like the ball in your example, then you would be correct. To someone who is...
Ok, fair enough. But empirically, do we observe that waves of light with different wavelengths or intensity respond differently to the same massive object?
By the equivalence principle, the gravitational mass of light is its inertial mass, which it has because it has momentum. Light can impart some of its the momentum to massive objects, upon which it will lose energy, which is manifested by its frequency (the basic principle behind doppler...
I thought this is something we do know. My understanding is that the suggestion that the uncertainty principle is merely a limit on our ability to measure (a particle that does in fact have a fixed position and velocity) is known as the "hidden variable interpretation." And whenever I see...
Are you friends with anyone in the class? or even just a "facebook" friend? I suspect you would be able to best maximize your studying efficiency if you got a handle on the scope of the class and the things the prof focused on. Does your professor post lecture powerpoints online? Is your...
I have what is probably a very basic question about the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment. As I understand it, in order for the counter tube to break and release the deadly poison, the Geiger counter must measure whether or not an atom decays. So, why doesn't that measurement collapse the...