Re: How Does Light "Know" How Fast to Travel?
>How Does Light "Know" How Fast to Travel?
Light doesn't "know" anything. Propagation at c is a property of
spacetime, not the thing doing the propagating.
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cu,
Bruce
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http://www.rzg.mpg.de/~bds/
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