Re: How can photons be massless
From: Andrew B. Park (novakyu_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 07/22/04
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Date: 22 Jul 2004 15:16:31 -0700
Spaceman wrote:
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> just think about it,
> spacetime = volumetime = lengthtime = distancetime = widthtime...
etc...
> spacetime is a bad word all by itself.
> It combines 2 completely different measurement standards into one
word.
> That alone should show you it lacks real science.
> In science you can have a space and have a time it takes to travel
that space.
> Or you can have a time and a space you can travel within that time.
> but combining them brings you into SciFi (and bad theories), not
science.
I guess you never heard units like "manhour" eh? It's like... if you
hire 5 construction workers to build a hut... and they work for a full
day (that is, 8 hours). Then, you have 40 manhours that you have to pay
for.
Although, I should say, this is completely different from spacetime.
The word "spacetime" is nothing more than a signification that space
_is_ time. They are one unity. Just as you can't separate "energy" from
"temperature" (because temperature _is_ avg. kinetic energy of the
particles), you can't separte time from space...
Which, I think is perfectly fine by what you claim--as you claim both
of them are illusions (er... or did I read something wrong?). So, they
are simply, er, one, single united illusion. (Not that I subscribe that
view... as I prefer to think of myself as existing and occupying some
definite place in the spacetime continuum.)
Maybe, all will work out for the better if you imagined a unit system
where c = 1. (yes, no units attached.) But then, did you understand
special relativity to begin with?
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