Re: How does light know it is traveling at c?

From: Androcles (androc1es_at_nospamblueyonder.co.uk)
Date: 09/19/04 

Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 22:49:51 GMT

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| > Seriously though, all physics boils down to one basic principle,
| > action at a distance. We look at any aspect, it always comes back to
| that.
| > For there to be any action, there has to be an actor/actee and an
| > actee/actor,
| > and there is always distance between them, that distance being filled
| with
| > nothing. I cannot envisage a massless (and indeed solid yet liquid yet
| > gaseous substance that is totally inert, save for the mechanical
| > transmission of pressure of some kind jamming itself between the
| electron
| > shell and the nucleus of an atom, let alone pervading the entire
| universe.
| > All matter (whatever that is, electrons/protons/neutrons, the stuff
| they are
| > made from), interacts with other matter over a distance that is not
| matter.
| > For gravity,
| > we've no dielectric to consider. For electromagnetism, we can consider
| > intervening matter between the actor/actee pair acting as a
| dielectric, but
| > it is
| > itself composed of matter, a kind of catalyst for the
| enabling/disabling of
| > the action at a distance that is apparent between two magnets
| separated by a
| > sheet of paper or the charged plates of a capacitor. The matter itself
| is
| > only the monopole, the centre of the field that is the action at a
| distance.
| > We can all write m = E/c^2, but that is only a clue as to what is
| really
| > going on.
| > I think we are at a position where we can say electrons exist, action
| at a
| > distance happens, and little more. We can propose our ideas and say
| what
| > things are not, but do very little in saying what they are.
| > So I'm open to suggestion from any quarter, but don't be surprised if
| it is
| > rejected.
| >
| So ya ignore the space because it is nothing except 1/r^2 .

The inverse square is a description of behaviour.
A mathematical 'verb' if you like.
It is not a noun. It doesn't say what is there.

|
| Entities share their electric charge by moving neighbors closer that
| lack it.
| Entities harbour their electric charge by pushing away neighbours that
| have enough.

'Charge' is a noun.
The behaviour is also 1/r^2, but with a different constant

|
| Entities share their magnetic field by aligning their neighbors. They
| harbour
| their magnetic field by turning their neighbors orthogonal.

'Field' is a noun also.

|
| So what is is left that entities can do to share excess energy with
| their neighbors?

Excess ENERGY?
I don't see any excess energy when a magnet is stuck to a fridge.
I have to expend energy to remove it. I also have to expend energy
getting out of this chair. I don't see any excess.

| Radiate!
| What is left that entities can do share their neighbor's excess energy?
| Pull them closer!
| Ya sure can't ask 'em send over a cup of sugar and 3 photons. Eh?
| So the apple pulls the earth closer to get it's energy.

Nope... It loses it.

|
| There ya have it. It's all about sharing.
| Now give your G'son a nice b'day gift and I'll see that he
| he gives ya the keys to the universe.
| (just have it back by 11 o'clock with no new dents)
| ;-)

Thanks... I think.
Androcles

| Kind regards,
| Sue...
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| > | : | >
| > | : | > | Hmmm... a mercenary beyond my means.
| > | : | >
| > | : | > I should coco. He's beyond everybody's means and his B-Day is
| > | : | > Friday. Can I borrow your credit card?
| > | : |
| > | : | He looks a bit young to have a credit card. Playing cards
| > | : | work just as well to make bicycle spokes sound like a
| > | : | motor.
| > | :
| > | : Good idea! And I don't have to buy him a bike either, he hasn't
| broken
| > | : the one he has...yet.
| > | :
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