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Article #8281Re: A non-tachyon, still-follows-Einsten's-rules FTL idea ... PLEASE comment on it!!!
From: Chris Wagner
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 00:00
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 00:00
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Yousuf Khan wrote: > > Chris Wagner <wagnerc@ucunix.san.uc.edu> wrote in article > <3341F022.235D@ucunix.san.uc.edu>... > > Yousuf Khan wrote: > > > > > > No, you don't necessarily have a photon. Did you not consider that > perhaps > > > there are other massless particles of energy besides photons out there? > > > > Its a mathematical impossibility. For there to be another particle out > > there without mass, it would have to look like a photon, act like a > > photon, > > and qwak like a photon. Guess what, that makes it a photon! > > What math is that? You referred to QED (quantum electrodynamics), but in > electrodynamics, this is obviously true, because the only massless particle > that interacts with electromagnetism is the photon. But we've already shown > that neutrinos don't interact with electromagnetism, so QED doesn't take a > neutrino into account, because a neutrino has nothing to do with QED. All QED is, is quantum dynamics with electrodynamics. The neutrino must have some small mass or else it would have the same wave properties as the photon.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fc19f,170da24f95ceef31 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc19f,public X-Google-Thread: 107319,14c8003ac88779d4 X-Google-Attributes: gid107319,public X-Google-Thread: 10b271,559b8de9eb7ab374 X-Google-Attributes: gid10b271,public From: Chris Wagner <wagnerc@ucunix.san.uc.edu> Subject: Re: A non-tachyon, still-follows-Einsten's-rules FTL idea ... PLEASE comment on it!!! Date: 1997/04/10 Message-ID: <334CD0CF.3B48@ucunix.san.uc.edu> X-Deja-AN: 232028452 References: <5d2m8a$ncn@Masala.CC.UH.EDU> <332BD9F9.5E4C@ucunix.san.uc.edu> <5gi4ta$7mg1@chinook.generation.net> <332CD474.A96@ucunix.san.uc.edu> <332DAC44.6318@hotmail.com> <5gnvii$t00$4@news1.sympatico.ca> <332F8EA9.336F@flash.net> <5gsv2t$3qv@news.inforamp.net> <3332d06f.1493960@news.euro.net> <Pine.GSO.3.95.970321163813.18908F-100000@cougar> <jVeRYAAyGENzEwZi@yendor.demon.co.uk> <33391071.4FEE@ozemail.com.au> <333918AB.3B8B@eos.ncsu.edu> <333F1D79.471F@ucunix.san.uc.edu> <5hplrm$578$4@news1.sympatico.ca> <3341F022.235D@ucunix.san.uc.edu> <01bc3f7d$f7fdd280$2001c8c8@Ypc> Organization: University of Cincinnati, Chemical Engineering Reply-To: wagnerc@ieee.cas.uc.edu Newsgroups: sci.physics,rec.arts.startrek.tech,aus.sf.star-trek