Re: Photon, Momentum, Mass

Jeckyl wrote:
What there DOES need to be is a 'geometry' that explains how the different FoR all measure the same speed for light.

Right. And that is _precisely_ what local Minkowski geometry does.

Assuming that spacetime is locally Minkowskian is no more complicated a postulate than assuming that space is Euclidean, and _EVERY_ older theory of physics implicitly did that. It's just not obvious to people rooted in their everyday lives and unable to look beyond their personal limitations.


Tom Roberts
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