Recent content by Jean Paul

What you say is mathematically correct. But physics is not mathematics. What I meant is that the equation *doesn't* say that if there is energy, there is matter. For instance light is not matter (although, given favorable circumstances, light can be transformed into matter). However where there...

Shouldn't it be the other way around: matter is a type of light? Matter is made of "tangled up" waves, tangled up light essentially (see string theory). Matter is light that cannot explode--it is energy that is "stored". When there is a nucluar explosion (such as in the Sun), that energy is...

Let's see: gammafactor=1/sqrt[1-(v/c)^2], so when v is greater than c then the time dilation is imaginary. What are you trying to explain? Your analogy is very good. But I think that the field lines do consist of something. It's just that physicists might not have the answer yet. There's a...

I appreciate your frank and honest answer. Yet I'm stunned when you say that "Theories do not have physical reasons." Well, shouldn't it be the purpose of physicists to come up with theories with solid physical reasons? For instance I feel that General Relativity is lacking in that respect even...

Hello. The following ideas have been on my mind for quite some time and are puzzling me to no end. 1. It is known from the special theory of relativity that a photon of light travels at the speed of light no matter whether it’s coming at the observer or moving away from it. In fact even if...

Thank you for your reply. You explain: " Space itself isn't made out of anything as far as we know, however, the geometry of spacetime is manifested as gravity. There is no energy *of* space -- if you remove all sources of energy density, then space becomes truly empty and has no dynamics...

Thank you for the clarification. I didn't understand all the fine details, but I understand now that zero-point energy and dark energy aren't the same. And I suspected that much already before. I was seeking confirmation. But you have not answered my other question: the constitution of space...

Hello. I've looked on the internet a lot about this: what is the zero-point energy and dark energy? From what I gathered, they both mean the same thing. Is that so? Also these two energies represent minimal energy densities *in* space. But what about energy *of* space itself. I mean here...