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In article <87lfd7$nmn$1@plutonium.btinternet.com>,
  "Damian Surr" <damian.gingermagic@btinternet.com> wrote:
> This is a very basic
> question which must just come from not
> understanding
> the basic premise of your idea (I keep picking a bit more of it up the
> more
> posts I read), but I'm trying to think about it. One of your posts
> said that
> you most enjoy replying to idiots,

I believe I define an idiot as one who does something
idiotic--And asking pertinent questions is NEVER an
idiotic thing (no matter how basic the questions may be).

> so have a laugh at this stupid
> question
> and then enlighten me.
>
> From what I can grasp from this ...
>
> > > > Say that the universe of ordinary matter "shrinks" ["in place,"
> > > > in our
> > > > experience, and never "towards" a given direction] in relation
> > > > to
> > > > x-space [and so "moves through it"] while the photon remains
> > > > stuck
> > > > to/embedded "more-or-less" in the (approximate) "place" at/in
> > > > which
> > > > it
> > > > was created (which makes it appear to us to be moving "linearly"
> > > > away
> > > > from the "spot" in the universe of ordinary matter "where" it
> > > > originated); thereby the so-called "speed of light" remains
> > > > constant
> > > > regardless of its source/origin/direction because "about" the
> > > > only
> > > > connection a photon has with its source is "orientation"
> > > > [x-space is
> > > > expanding equally from/at all coordinates, so the only quality
> > > > the
> > > > photon creator/source can impart unto "his" creation is an
> > > > orientation
> > > > relative to "himself" --e.g. when "you" create the photon to the
> > > > west of
> > > > "you" that photon will "seem" to shoot out away from your west
> > > > side,
> > > > and
> > > > if you create a photon to the north of you... it will then
> > > > "seem" to
> > > > shoot out away from your north side, since x-space will always
> > > > take
> > > > "you" to be the exact center of its universe]
>
> Am I right in saying that the 'apparent' movement of light (or 'the
> photon')
> is just caused by our shrinking and the photons staying still in their
> own
> space? So as I shirk, it looks like the photons are shooting away from
> me?
> That's what it sounds like you're saying, but I must have got it
> totally
> wrong, other wise light would always 'appear' to be travelling away
> from me.
> That can't be what you're saying otherwise I couldn't do something as
> simple
> as shine a torch at myself. Pointing the torch at my shirt wouldn't
> illuminate my shirt because would have 'shrunk' away from the photons
> ..
> they wouldn't be able to hit me.
>
> Ok, tell me how stupid I am and what I'm missing?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Damian
>
>

Dear Damian, if you're stupid then I'm just as stupid as you because
undestanding is only half the job: Properly explaining something
is the other half; and so you have my apologies. Try this & see if
it helps:

Take a brookstick and tape a flashlight at one end pointing towards
the other end. Now put that other end against your chest (so that
the flashlight points at your chest) and turn the flashlight on:

The flashlight is the photon's (s') source: The photons will shoot
away from the flashlight--towards you!

Although you do not see it, the broomstick has shrunk pulling you
towards the "place" where the flashlight "deposited" its photons
and way pass there: Those photon which crashed against your chest
are no more, and those that shot over your shoulders are now long
long gone past where you are (speeding) shriking away from them.

Hope this helps. But if still does not, then consider it from this
angle: Don't think of matter as shrinking but rather think of it
in terms of space expanding FROM EVERY IMAGINABLE coordinate: This
means that for all practical effects YOU (the photon source) are
the center of the universe. And as soon as you "push" a photon out
into existence... the photon will "ride expanding space" away from
you: If it crashes against anything standing in its way... it's
the death of that photon. And if it continues on into the cosmos
it will live as long as it doesn't crash against anything else
out there--so it could actually "live" for billions of years!

And, by the way, the photons do not get stuck in "a" place (or
at absolute rest, they just don't shrink "as fast" as the other forms
of ordinary matter. Consequently they are "left a bit behind" by
the rest of the universe (that "bit" = the speed of light). At my web
site I speculate on what this might say about the nature of the photon.

(Which see.)

S D Rodrian
sdr@t-three.com
http://members.aol.com/prebigbang


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