🚀 go-pugleaf

On Jan 11, 2:58 pm, "Paul Hovnanian P.E." <p...@hovnanian.com> wrote:
> "mpc...@gmail.com" wrote:
>
> > On Jan 8, 9:03 pm, "Paul Hovnanian P.E." <p...@hovnanian.com> wrote:
> > > "mpc...@gmail.com" wrote:
>
> > > > > > Indeed!  And how does a particle not have mass?
>
> > > > > If its not really a particle in the classical physics sense.
>
> > > > Explain how a non-classical massless particle exists in nothing.
>
> > > What particle? Light is an electromagnetic wave. The idea that its a
> > > particles is a simplification used to explain its quantum nature.
>
> > > --
> > > Paul Hovnanian     mailto:P...@Hovnanian.com
> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > If your only tool is a hammer then every problem looks like a thumb.
>
> > Wikipedia:
>
> > "A massless particle is a particle whose invariant mass is zero.
> > Currently, the only known massless particles are gauge bosons: the
> > photon (carrier of electromagnetism) and the gluon (carrier of the
> > strong force)."
>
> > "The behavior of massless particles is understood by virtue of special
> > relativity. For example, these particles must always move at the speed
> > of light. See Mass in special relativity."
>
> > "General relativity implies that gravitation is quantized by the
> > graviton, which is a massless tensor boson"
>
> > How does an electromagnetic wave travel through nothing?
>
> I'm afraid you will have to go back and study the basics. Start with
> static electric and magnetic fields. They produce a force that has an
> effect over a distance with no intervening medium.

Who says there's no intervening medium?

There is a medium or there would be no force.

The medium is aether.

> Then, apply Maxwell's
> equations to those EM fields and you have an  electromagnetic wave.
>
> If that's too difficult, think about the alternative: You claim that
> light has momentum as the result of its traveling through a medium
> because it doesn't not have mass of its own. If mass is a necessary
> property for a wave to have momentum, as in a wave in water or air, then
> what is the density of aether in Kg/m^3?
>

I do not know what the density of the aether is.