Re: "How Does Light "Know" How Fast to Travel?"

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Hexenmeister" <vanqu...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Socratus wrote: . . . .
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Hexenmeister" <vanqu...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
There are no "waves" as such.
Waves are a time dependent phenomenon.
When you wave your hand you have only one hand, it
changes position with time.

Gerald L. O'Barr <globarr...@xxxxxxxxx> comments:
And this is so perfect! Yes, a photon is a real
particle (actually a group of particles), but it
(this group of particles) 'serpentines' as it moves
(translates, wiggles or rotates) through space.
Also, the photon is not a fixed size. It is like a
balloon of gases, where its boundaries can grow or
collapse. It does not have a material boundary, as a
balloon might have, but it has a boundary upon which
it can control or not control the adjoining
particles. When deep space is reach, and there are
no surrounding photons, then the 'size' of the photon
(the reach of its control) is relatively fixed. It
does not continue to grow. But it continues to
'wave.' Since a photon is made up of smaller
particles, then two photons can generally go right
through each other, that is, their centers can cross
over the same point, but their individual particles
do not have to hit each other.

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Hexenmeister" <vanqu...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
There is only one "now", where the black line is.

Gerald L. O'Barr <globarr...@xxxxxxxxx> comments:
Absolutely correct. Physically, there is only
'now,' only one existence. Change is present. But
only one existence.

Thanks for reading, to both Androcles and Socratus.
Gerald.

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