Re: Speed of Light: A universal Constant?
From: glbrad01 (glbrad01_at_insightbb.com)
Date: 03/21/05
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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 11:54:35 GMT
"Nick" <macromitch@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> No. The speed of light is constant for all inertial frames -
> those frames without acceleration.
>
> It is as if matter's motion through space doesn't count.
> Its as if constant motion is no motion through space
> at all with regards to light. As if matter is still.
>
> Introduce acceleration and the speed of light can vary.
> Mitch
>
Under constant boost at 1-g and traveling more or less in a straight line
in outer space a traveler will measure the speed of light to be the same as
he would measure it under the same local conditions on the surface of the
Earth. If he isn't locally trying to get relative to some other body in
space there is no chance, no possibility, he could know what his velocity
is. He could travel out of the galaxy under constant acceleration of 1-g and
still he would measure the speed of light to be "c" under the given
conditions for measuring it "c." HE HASN'T ANY REFERENCE FRAME FOR TELLING
(FOR MEASURING) ANYWHERE NEAR PRECISELY HIS OWN VELOCITY! None whatsoever.
The speed of light will be one horizon that stays constant to him.
As his entire external coordinate system will be a matter of histories (
an apparent matter of time travel (apparent to him as the traveler)) and not
space, the speed of light will not change regarding the remote outside of
the local either. Regarding the same though, he would probably notice--he
will more than likely notice--alterations occurring in the shifts of light
in the remote distances even as he notices no change occurring regarding the
velocity of light locally.
The velocity of light is independent of all other velocities. It is a
constant distant horizon that stays that constant distance (given the local
conditions always listed for that constancy such as "in a vacuum"). The
shift is another matter entirely. A dependent matter. A traveler in the
Universe traveling through "histories" to some there and now, wherever
"there and now" might be, manipulates that dependency...getting himself
'inversely proportional' in the picture, so to speak, to some unitary
celestial body (a planet, a solar system, a galaxy, or even--potentially--a
universe). The traveler will always deal in space-times and relativity to
some [magnitude] or another of the same (celestial body: planet, solar
system, galaxy, universe, universe of universes, and so on). He will never
deal in the speed of light because he will never get closer to it than
measuring it the constant it is. Even in various mediums that force the
speed of light to appear to change, to slow, whatever, it is the quality of
the medium one is dealing in really, not the intrinsic velocity of light
which if one could measure it proceeding through any length of vacuum--no
matter how subatomically short or small that length--within whatever that
medium, one would measure light's velocity "c". No matter the acceleration
per second per second, at all 'velocities' within all accelerations in
velocity the velocity of light affirms its independent constancy regarding
any and all of those velocities. Accelerating changing (an object
accelerating up through gravities of acceleration that is) in wavelength and
frequency though should tend to cause shattering....
In the end you can't isolate the constant. You can't discuss the
invariable constant in isolation from the variables of wavelength and
frequency. Altogether the indivisibility of the three factors deal in the
physics of proportionality and relativity, specifically "inverse
proportionality" as it applies to more than just one item of physicality. In
the fantasy world of elegant mathematical games, you can isolate the speed
of light. In the real world Universe the three factors come as an
inseparable package deal, all at once or none at all (all or none). Then you
have to picture what that means regarding physicality and all observation of
it.
Gen
"You made a mistake, she didn't want to see me."
"I make many mistakes."
(The Big Sleep)
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