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Article #8292Re: A non-tachyon, still-follows-Einsten's-rules FTL idea ... PLEASE comment on it!!!
From: Chris Wagner
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 1997 00:00
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 1997 00:00
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Malcolm McMahon wrote: > > On Sun, 30 Mar 1997 21:20:45 -0500, Chris Wagner > <wagnerc@ucunix.san.uc.edu> wrote: > >but they can't pass through matter without hitting particles in that > >matter. They're wavelength is too large, atleast until you get into > >the upper gamma range. > > It's not a question of wavelength. It's a question of their having no > interest in any of the force fields associated with matter except the > weak nuclear force. Photons interact with any charged particle they > come within spitting distance of. But it is. Adsorption criteria is strickly wavelength. If a photon is the wrong wavelength it will not be absorbed. Witness glass. Neutrinos are so small and their wavelength so small that they rarely come within "spitting distance" of anything. The only way they interact is if they directly impact another particle head on. But a neutrino going through an atom is like throwing a baseball through the solar system. Its just not very likely that its going to hit anything.
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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: 1997/04/02 Message-ID: <3341FAC8.35B4@ucunix.san.uc.edu> X-Deja-AN: 230064428 References: <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> <01bc3a2a$0f042aa0$c74e97c2@BZTcomputer.iaehv.iaehv.nl> <333A2720.57DD@eos.ncsu.edu> <333F1F7D.4C24@ucunix.san.uc.edu> <334474b4.3083082@news.demon.co.uk> Organization: University of Cincinnati, Chemical Engineering Reply-To: wagnerc@ieee.cas.uc.edu Newsgroups: sci.physics,rec.arts.startrek.tech,aus.sf.star-trek