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    I 'If a photon were trapped between two perfect mirrors....'

    If a photon were trapped between two perfect mirrors perpendicular to its axis of motion, and they were gradually brought together until they were touching, so that the distance between their faces was 0m, would the photon be "trapped" between the mirrors? Without space in which to move, how...
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    Quantum fluctuations = gravity?

    Since it is random, it creates no inhomogeneities that attract one area to another.
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    Virtual Particles: Fact or Fiction?

    Wait - what's the sweeping generalization. I am giving a very specific definition of metaphysics: a claim that neither refutes nor supports a scientific claim, and which can be neither supported nor refuted by a scientific (testable) hypothesis. I then claim that metaphysical claims can be...
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    Virtual Particles: Fact or Fiction?

    I'd like to add my vote of confidence in Kexue & his noble endeavor. The physicists on this forum who incessantly say "physics is physics, not metaphysics" and "we don't speculate" and "all we do is empiricism" and "just the facts, ma'am" don't know what they are talking about from a...
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