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Dear Pentcho Valev:

Removing astonomy newsgroups, since you have exceeded my 
crosspost limit.

"Pentcho Valev" <pvalev@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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> For the moment the only obstacle to the
> definitive adoption of Newton's particle
> model of light seems to be the double slit
> experiment: you block one slit and some
> points on the screen become brighter. I
> don't see how this could be explained in
> terms of the particle model.

If you substitute "discrete" for "particle", then the explanation 
can sort of ferret out.  We assume that a particle is some sort 
of billiard ball, with zero probability of detection "off path", 
yet we know in quantum mechanics such "expectations" are 
unfounded.

> Of course this does not imply that other
> properties of light cannot be explained in
> terms of the particle model,

What becomes difficult, Pentcho, is designing antennas and 
receivers / amplifiers using the particle nature of light.

> and the variation of the speed of photons
> with the speed of the light source or with
> the gravitational potential is just one of
> them.

Monthly, Nature shows us that the anisotropy in light speed form 
moving objects is zero.  Light is sourced from high z objects, 
the Moon eclipses them, and that light stops at the same instant 
as light from similarly eclipsed light from lower speed sources.

I fail to understand in ballistic light, how light knows to 
approach a mirror at c+v and reflect at c-v, conserve momentum, 
to yield a round-trip time of c (which has been tested).  You 
propose violation of conservation of momentum without batting an 
eye...

David A. Smith