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Article #1036Re: GUILTY CONSCIENCE IN EINSTEINIANA
From: Sebastian Garth
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:19
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:19
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>> Some characteristics present light as a continuous structure or field but, as far as its speed is concerned, light definitely behaves as discontinuous particles with a mass do. That is, light accelerates in a gravitational field and incorporates the speed of the emitter into its own speed just as discontinuous particles with a mass do. It seems to me that Einstein's initial assertion of wave-particle duality was the best overall characterization of the matter, and even though he later hints that the particulate description may be more accurate, I don't think it really invalidates wave-based analysis at all. Both are convenient interpretations of a system that is quite difficult to grasp with our limited conceptual facilities - the question of 'the reality' of the analogy is less important than the correctness of it's results, so the case may actually be that he was being a little too hard on himself. Anyway, AFAIK, light is massless. If it were not, then collisions with matter/waves should slow it down. Moreover, the rate of propagation isn't dependent on or affected by gravity, or anything else, for that matter. Furthermore, when an emitter in motion, or even accelerating, transmits a beam of light, the sum of velocities does not apply. So I would say that your statement is essentially incorrect.
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