Recent content by sweetcaroline6

surely when light hits an object it's energy is absorbed into that object and if light returns in kind it is new light manufactured by the object using the energy of the light that it has just absorbed. so light's speed is never zero. also (and this is to russ re my last question) how, in the...

To Russ Waters If light travels a certain distance in space in a given time, is it possible that if space were contracted, light would travel over this "shortened" distance over the same time. i.e. to an outside observer it would appear to slow down. As gravity changes space, as one...

I don't know a lot about string theory. It seems to me that a lot of strange phenomena seem "possible" by interpretation of the math. Hence the field of theoretical mathematics. It all seems to be based on the assumption that math exactly describes the physical world. To me math explains more...

sorry, this has nothing to do with your question. I just can't work out how one posts a question on this forum. do you need special membership. I've just signed up and can't see anywhere on the website to post a query like yours. apologies again but if you could take a moment to explain the...