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Here is an example of the issue: Two space ships accelerate in opposite directions from a space station in deep space. The space station calculates the speed of each departing spaceship relative to itself by sending out light signals to the space ships, which they return straight back to the...

Student, don't give up on seeking the answer to that question - that question shows great insight.

Hi DaTario, What the mirror does is the same as writing in wet ink... . Top .Left Right . Bottom on a piece of paper, say stuck on a wall in front of you, and then getting a friend to put another piece of paper on top of the still wet writing and then they move...

But I thought the suggestion of interference came about because, when the diffraction pattern from a single slit is compared to the diffraction pattern from two slits, it is found that the probability of where the electron goes after passing through the single slit, is in some places, reduced by...

How can that be true - that ideal gases collide completely elastically without losing kinetic energy? For in that case, how would an ideal gas ever lose heat? Since an ideal gas atom (as they are typically mono-atomic) can always absorb an infrared photon, but by what mechanism would the...

Surely the speed of the compressing piston is negligible compared to the speed of the molecules in the gas? I would have thought that the increase in temperature is more likely due to the increased rate of collisions between the molecules... When the molecules are traveling freely between...

The assumption that the photon is destroyed when it is absorbed by an electron, raises a far deeper observation than simply the question of how does an electron produce a photon? That is... According to chance, it is far more likely that we live in a universe that works using simple...

No, I am just asking as a consequence of noting, that if the photon is destroyed when it is absorbed by an electron, then how does the electron produce (i.e. emit) a photon? I'm not asking how a tally of energy is kept, but the even more basic question of simply: How is a photon created by...

Isn't that a problematic example - for the rules of the lever in a see-saw are a result of the fundamental particles in the see-saw? Anyway, so is the suggestion that it is energy that has the information of how to create the subsequently emitted photon?

So are the Laws of the Universe embedded in the electron?

Well the photon is a thing, and since the assumption is that the photon is destroyed when an electron absorbs a photon - then the question arises that when an electron emits a photon, then where is the information on how to create the photon?

So if the photon is destroyed when it is absorbed by an electron, does this mean that the electron - i.e. the electron in general - carries within itself the information necessary to create photons?

Can that be explained a bit more please - that is, how the light pointing directly outward is actually moving towards the singularity?

So where does the energy of the light go? Is it still in the black hole?

Excuse me? Calculating and understanding are completely different things. (I hope you are not trying to suggest that I am not intelligent enough to continue with discussing this?) You seem to think that I am questioning the calculation - I am not. I am pointing out that if the calculation...