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shankar
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if iam traveling along a light beam and if my speed matches (dosent happen,if) can i see the ligth standing still...
Photons don't have rest mass. But they do have energy, which we translate to "relativistic mass".Photons do/don't have mass?
Uh... stalled/held? Which experiments?If they don't, how can they be captured, stalled, and/or held as I've seen in so many experiments that have been reported as of late?
Originally posted by Echo 6 Sierra
I'm almost positive that I followed a link from this site to a BBC story where a group of Scientists were able to at least "delay" a photon a measurable amount of time. I want to say they were Nederlanders but that part I'm not sure of. I believe either AMES RC or SWRI duplicated it, but then again, I could be completely wrong.
DANG! Not a whole lot of concrete info coming from me nowadays. If I find it would you like a PM or a re-post here?
E6S
Originally posted by shankar
if iam traveling along a light beam and if my speed matches (dosent happen,if) can i see the ligth standing still...
Light beam travel is the movement of light from one point to another. Light travels in a straight line and moves very quickly, with a speed of about 186,282 miles per second in a vacuum.
No, you cannot see light standing still. Light is always moving and cannot be observed when it is stationary. We can only see light when it reflects off an object or when it enters our eyes.
Light travels at different speeds through different mediums, such as air, water, or glass. This is because these mediums have different densities, which affect the speed of light. Light travels faster through less dense mediums and slower through more dense mediums.
Objects appear to change color in different lighting because of the way light reflects off of them. Different sources of light have different wavelengths, which affect how our eyes perceive color. For example, objects may appear yellow under the yellow light of a streetlamp, but appear white under natural sunlight.
Light and time are closely related. The speed of light is used as a fundamental constant in many equations and theories of time. The faster an object travels, the slower time passes for that object. This is known as time dilation and is a key concept in Einstein's theory of relativity.