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Article #1525Re: Defining Photons
From: Steinn Sigurdsson
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 21:40
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 21:40
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snarfy@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us writes: > If you are a college professor , the taxpayers or students pay > you to enlighten and clarify issues pertaining to your specialty. > Why then have you not yet found a word other than ``particle'' to > describe that which has no mass , to differentiate it from that > which does?. If that's all you want, then a new word is easy. I'd suggest the old "wavicle" - although that's been used for massive waves as well as massless particles. If that won't do, how's about a "gravinon" ;-) I think that has just the right mixture of obfuscation and pseudo-classicism! * Steinn Sigurdsson Lick Observatory * * steinly@helios.ucsc.edu "standard disclaimer" * * The laws of gravity are very,very strict * * And you're just bending them for your own benefit - B.B. 1988*
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!olivea!hal.com!darkstar.UCSC.EDU!darkstar!steinly From: steinly@topaz.ucsc.edu (Steinn Sigurdsson) Newsgroups: sci.physics Subject: Re: Defining Photons Message-ID: <STEINLY.92Jul26144007@topaz.ucsc.edu> Date: 26 Jul 92 21:40:07 GMT References: <3942@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us> <mcirvin.712178899@husc10> Organization: Lick Observatory/UCO Lines: 20 NNTP-Posting-Host: topaz.ucsc.edu In-reply-to: mcirvin@husc10.harvard.edu's message of 26 Jul 92 19:28:19 GMT