Re: A non-tachyon, still-follows-Einsten's-rules FTL idea ... PLEASE comment on it!!!

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From: meron
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In article <33403E3D.992@eos.ncsu.edu>, James Grady Ward <jgward@eos.ncsu.edu> writes:
>Chris Wagner wrote:
>> 
>> James Grady Ward wrote:
>> > >     It is interesting to note that neutrino's travel at 1.0c
>> > > irrespective of the material, and so break the local speed of light. The
>> > > particle will emit an EM radiation known as Cerenkov Radiation.
>> >
>> > it has not been verified yet if neutrinos are actually massless yet,
>> > but if they are yes they would travel at c through just about anything.
>> 
>> If neutrinos were massless then they'ld be photons.  All radiations
>> (photons, beta, alpha, missles, baseballs, etc) obey the dual particle/
>> wave nature of matter.
>
>technicly you are right, we define a photon as a massless particle so
>if they are massless they should be called photons.

There is nothing right here, technically or otherwise.  While photons 
are massless particles, in no place it is said or defined that any 
massless particle is a photon.

Mati Meron                      | "When you argue with a fool,
meron@cars.uchicago.edu         |  chances are he is doing just the same"

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From: meron@cars3.uchicago.edu
Subject: Re: A non-tachyon, still-follows-Einsten's-rules FTL idea ... PLEASE comment on it!!!
Date: 1997/03/31
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